In the past, media, politicians and advertisers were the only people using focus groups to refine their public messages. Increasingly, environmental organizations are using polls and small experimental research gatherings to examine their campaign strategies’ effectiveness. David Hammond of the Great Lakes Radio Consortium reports on this recent trend.
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