News : the politics of illusion /
The media are everywhere. This renowned book by media expert Lance Bennett explores how well the news media serves the needs of democracy and looks at how various political actors -- from presidents and members of Congress, to interest groups and citizen-activists -- try to get their messages into t...
| Основен автор: | Bennett, W. Lance. |
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| Други автори: | Graber, Doris A. 1923- |
| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Pearson Longman,
c2007.
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| Издание: | 7th ed. |
| Серия: |
Longman classics in political science.
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Съдържание:
- 1. The news about democracy. News and democracy
- Gatekeeping : who and what makes the news
- News as a democratic information system
- Politicians, press, and the people
- A definition of news
- The new gatekeeping
- How mediated government works
- Case study : governing with the news as terror comes to America
- The fragile link between news and democracy
- Why free speech cannot guarantee good information
- Soft news and the turn away from politics
- Myths about news bias
- Putting journalistic bias in perspective
- What kind of news would better serve democracy?
- 2. News content. A different kind of bias
- Four information biases that matter : an overview
- Case study : how George W. Bush got his swagger
- Four information biases in the news : an in-depth look
- Bias as part of the political information system
- New bias and discouraged citizens
- Reform anyone?
- 3. Citizens and the news. Priming public opinion on Iraq
- News, strategic information, and public opinion : the citizen's dilemma
- Internet versus mass media : why mainstream news still matters
- Processing the news
- Why people prefer TV : audio and visual information
- News frames and political learning
- Case study : national attention deficit disorder?
- News and personal experience : what gets through
- Uses and gratifications : other reasons people follow the news
- - Citizen, information, and politics
- 4. How politicians make the news. The politics of illusion
- The sources of political news
- Case study : selling the Iraq war
- News images as strategic political communication
- News bias and press-government relations
- The goals of strategic political communication
- Symbolic politics and the techniques of image making
- News management : the basics
- News management styles and the modern presidency
- Press relations : feeding the beast
- Government and the politics of newsmaking
- Notes
- 5. How journalists report the news. Work routines and professional norms
- When routines produce high-quality reporting
- Case study : top ten reasons the press took a pass on the Iraq war
- How reporting practices contribute to news bias
- Reporters and officials : cooperation and control
- Reporters as members of news organizations : pressures to standardize
- Reporters as a pack : pressures to agree
- The paradox of organizational routines
- When journalism works
- Democracy with or without citizens?
- Notes
- 6. Inside the profession. Journalists and their profession
- The paradox of objective reporting
- Defining objectivity : fairness, balance, and truth
- The curious origins of objective journalism
- Professional journalisms in practice
- Objectivity reconsidered
- Case study : why mainstream professional journalism favors spin over truth
- 7. The political economy of news. The economic transformation of the American media
- Corporate profit logic and news content
- The political economy of news
- Economics versus democracy : inside the news business
- The media monopoly : arguments for and against
- Case study : the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the citizen's movement of social responsibility in broadcast standards
- Effects of the media monopoly : five information trends
- How does corporate influence operate?
- News on the Internet : perfecting the commercialization of information?
- Commercialized information and citizen confidence
- Megatrends : technology, economics, and social change
- 8. All the news that fits democracy. The deliberative citizen
- Personalized information and the future of democracy
- Whither the public sphere?
- The news about the private (commercial) media system
- The news about public broadcasting
- The news about objective journalism
- News and power in America : ideal versus reality
- Why the myth of a free press persists
- Proposals for citizens, journalists, and politicians
- Case study : citizen input, from interactive news to desktop democracy
- The promise and peril of virtual democracy
- Corporate social responsibility : a place to start .