Elizabeth A. Sharrow just published an article in the Washington Post with co-authors Tatishe M. Nteta and Melinda R. Tarsi. Their research, forthcoming at Social Science Quarterly, uses a survey experiment to explore the influence of media and political elites on public opinion regarding the use of Native American mascots and symbols in professional football. They find that media elites can affect opinion among white Americans, suggesting that despite a recent US Supreme Court decision validating the rights of groups to register potentially offensive trademarks, the debate on this issue is far from settled.