News: The Politics of Illusion,9780321421616

News: The Politics of Illusion

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Edition: 7th
ISBN13: 9780321421616
ISBN10: 0321421612
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Pub. Date: 2007-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary

This favorite of both instructors and students is a "behind-the-scenes" tour of news in American politics. The core question explored in this book is: How well does the news, as the core of the national political information system, serve the needs of democracy? In investigating this question, the book examines how various political actors-from presidents and members of Congress, to interest organizations and citizen-activists-try to get their messages into the news.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Doris A. Graber vii
Preface xv
CHAPTER 1 THE NEWS ABOUT DEMOCRACY 1(35)
News and Democracy
4(1)
Gatekeeping: Who and What Makes the News
5(1)
News as a Democratic Information System
6(2)
Politicians, Press, and the People
8(3)
A Definition of News
11(1)
The New Gatekeeping
11(2)
How Mediated Government Works
13(6)
Case Study: Governing with the News as Terror Comes to America
14(5)
The Fragile Link Between News and Democracy
19(1)
Why Free Speech Cannot Guarantee Good Information
19(2)
Soft News and the Turn Away from Politics
21(3)
Myths About News Bias
24(1)
Putting Journalistic Bias in Perspective
25(5)
What Kind of News Would Better Serve Democracy?
30(1)
Notes
31(5)
CHAPTER 2 NEWS CONTENT 36(38)
A Different Kind of Bias
38(2)
Four Information Biases that Matter: An Overview
40(9)
Case Study: How Geortx W. Bush Got His Swagger
45(4)
Four Information Biases in the News: An In-Depth Look
49(18)
Bias as Part of the Political Information System
67(1)
News Bias and Discouraged Citizens
67(2)
Reform Anyone?
69(1)
Notes
70(4)
CHAPTER 3 CITZENS AND THE NEWS 74(35)
Priming Public Opinion on Iraq
77(2)
News, Stragetic Information, and Public Opinion: The Citizen's Dilemma
79(3)
Internet Versus Mass Media: Why Mainstream News Still Matters
82(1)
Processing the News
83(1)
Why People Prefer TV: Audio and Visual Information
84(1)
News Frames and Political Learning
85(4)
Case Study: National Attention Deficit Disorder?
86(3)
News and Personal Experience: What Gets Through
89(5)
Uses and Gratifications: Other Reasons People Follow the News
94(10)
Citizen, Information, and Politics
104(2)
Notes
106(3)
CHAPTER 4 HOW POLITICIANS MAKE THE NEWS 109(44)
The Politics of Illusion
110(2)
The Sources of Political News
112(7)
Case Study: Selling the Iraq War
116(3)
News Images as Strategic Political Communication
119(2)
News Bias and Press-Government Relations
121(1)
The Goals of Strategic Political Communication
122(5)
Symbolic Politics and the Techniques of Image Making
127(3)
News Management: The Basics
130(6)
News Management Styles and the Modern Presidency
136(6)
Press Relations: Feeding the Beast
142(5)
Government and the Politics of Newsmaking
147(2)
Notes
149(4)
CHAPTER 5 How JOURNALISTS REPORT THE NEWS 153(33)
Work Routines and Professional Norms
156(2)
When Routines Produce High-Quality Reporting
158(5)
Case Study: Top Ten Reasons the Press Took a Pass on the Iraq War
159(4)
How Reporting Practices Contribute to News Bias
163(1)
Reporters and Officials: Cooperation and Control
164(4)
Reporters as Members of News Organizations: Pressures to Standardize
168(3)
Reporters as a Pack: Pressures to Agree
171(6)
The Paradox of Organizational Routines
177(1)
When Journalism Works
178(3)
Democracy With or Without Citizens?
181(1)
Notes
182(4)
CHAPTER 6 INSIDE THE PROFESSION 186(34)
Journalists and Their Profession
187(1)
The Paradox of Objective Reporting
188(1)
Defining Objectivity: Fairness, Balance, and Truth
189(2)
The Curious Origins of Objective Journalism
191(3)
Professional Journalisms in Practice
194(16)
Objectivity Reconsidered
210(6)
Case Study: Why Mainstream Professional Journalism Favors Spin over Truth
211(5)
Notes
216(4)
CHAPTER 7 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NEWS 220(39)
The Economic Transformation of the American Media
221(3)
Corporate Profit Logic and News Content
224(4)
The Political Economy of News
228(1)
Economics Versus Democracy: Inside the News Business
229(4)
The Media Monopoly: Arguments for and Against
233(4)
Case Study: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the Citizen's Movement for Social Responsibility in Broadcast Standards
234(3)
Effects of the Media Monopoly: Five Information Trends
237(12)
How Does Corporate Influence Operate?
249(1)
News on the Internet: Perfecting the Commercialization of Information?
250(1)
Commercialized Information and Citizen Confidence
251(1)
Megatrends: Technology, Economics, and Social Change
252(2)
Notes
254(5)
CHAPTER 8 ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS DEMOCRACY 259(34)
The Deliberative Citizen
260(1)
Personalized Information and the Future of Democracy
261(1)
Whither the Public Sphere?
262(2)
The News About the Private (Commercial) Media System
264(1)
The News About Public Broadcasting
265(1)
The News About Objective Journalism
266(1)
News and Power in America: Ideal Versus Reality
267(1)
Why the Myth of a Free Press Persists
268(3)
Proposals for Citizens, Journalists, and Politicians
271(16)
Case Study: Citizen Input—from Interactive News to Desktop Democracy
284(3)
The Promise and Peril of Virtual Democracy
287(2)
Corporate Social Responsibility: A Place to Start
289(1)
Notes
290(3)
Index 293

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