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1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) |
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OUP E-Books
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- I: UNDERSTANDING MEDIA INFLUENCE -- 1: The Dilemma of Journalism: Democracy Without Citizens -- Citizenship and Free Press Ideals -- Does Citizenship Matter to Democracy? -- 2: Objectivity, Bias, and Slant in the News -- On Liberal Bias in the News -- Objectivity, News Slant, and the Political Market -- 3: Straight Talk on Slanted News: "Bias" and Accountability in Reporting Carter and Reagan -- The Importance of Being Billy -- Explaining Slant in Scandal News -- Foreign Crisis and News Slant -- Reality and News Slant -- Autonomy and Accountability -- Reality and Slant in the Iran-Contra Affair -- 4: How the Media Affect What People Think-and Think They Think -- The Research Tradition -- Information Processing and Media Impacts -- Testing Media Influence -- Findings and Implications -- Audience Autonomy Reconsidered -- II: IMPROVING JOURNALISM -- 5: Newspaper Competition arid Free Press Ideals: Does Monopoly Matter? -- Economic Market Logic vs. The Marketplace of Ideas -- The Impact of Competition -- Enriching the Marketplace of Ideas -- Economic Markets and Publisher Power -- 6: Faith and Mystification in Broadcast Deregulation -- The Fairness Doctrine in Theory and Operation -- Competition's Benefits: New Supply, More Demand? -- Removing the Doctrine to Enhance Autonomy -- 7: Improving Journalism by Enhancing Citizenship -- Demagoguery and the Dilemmas of Interdependence -- The Supply and Demand Sides of Journalism's Dilemma -- Acknowledging Intractability -- Appendix A: Citizenship and Opinions: Data and Statistical Analysis -- Appendix B: Public Opinion Impacts: Data and Statistical Analysis -- Findings -- Alternative Explanation: Selective Exposure -- Appendix C: Newspaper Competition: Data and Statistical Analysis |
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Results -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This trenchant analysis questions why the interaction between the news media and their audiences fails to create the democratic potential everyone assumes occurs with such interaction. Drawing illustrations mainly from the Carter and Reagan years, the book presents a clear statement of the dilemmas facing the news media and their audience today. The book offers a portrait of citizenship in America, defined by the public's changing levels of political knowledge and participation from 1952 to 1984. Politically unsophisticated, the mass audience prefers simple, symbolic news, which means that journalists can offer little of the detached, detailed explorations of policy issues that would provide the public with the information needed to hold government to close account |
| Analysis |
United States Politics Role of mass media |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States
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Journalism -- Objectivity -- United States
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Government and the press -- United States
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Political participation -- United States
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Public opinion -- United States
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Government and the press
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Journalism -- Objectivity
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Journalism -- Political aspects
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Political participation
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Politics and government
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Public opinion
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Massamedia.
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Politieke aspecten.
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Presse et politique -- Etats-Unis -- 20e siecle.
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Participation politique -- Etats-Unis -- 20e siecle.
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Etat et presse -- Etats-Unis -- 20e siecle.
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Medias -- Publics -- Etats-Unis -- 20e siecle.
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Journalisme -- Aspect politique -- Etats-Unis -- 20e siecle.
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Etat et presse -- Etats-Unis.
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Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Journalism -- Objectivity -- United States.
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Public opinion -- United States.
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Government and the press -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140475
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United States
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Etats-Unis -- Medias et politique -- 20e siecle.
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Etats-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 20e siecle.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
88022717 |
| ISBN |
9780198022022 |
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0198022026 |
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9780195065763 |
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019506576X |
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0195053133 |
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9780195053135 |
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1280525223 |
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9781280525223 |
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9786610525225 |
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6610525226 |
