广义舆论是人们对一切感兴趣的社会生活领域，尤其是社会公共事物所产生的一切意见，愿望，评价和想象的欲望，是持续性，变化性，公共性与个人性的统一。狭义舆论包括既相互独立又相互关联的公共舆论和新闻舆论。
公共新闻活动是对此前所有新闻学、传播学、舆论学和社会学理论的巨大冲击。
Public journalism exercises large impact on previous journalism, communication, public opinion and sociology theory.
沉默的螺旋理论作为传播强效果理论的代表，在传播学界关于舆论学的研究中享有极高的声誉。
The spiral of silence as representative of powerful result theory, in communication theory educational circles enjoys high reputation extremely among research on public opinion study.
他在1978年被授予诺贝尔经济学奖，舆论普遍表示讶异，因为此时他已有二十年不教经济学了。
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics in 1978, to considerable surprise, since by then he had not taught economics for two decades.
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