The press and American politics : the new mediator /
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Author / Creator: | Davis, Richard (Richard Dana) |
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Imprint: | New York : Longman, c1992. |
Description: | xii, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1758984 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : assumptions about media power
- The newsgathering process
- The newsmaking process
- Colonial America to 1830 : partisan leaders and the press
- Post-1830 : the penny press, yellow journalism, and political independence
- 1900 to the present : the rise of broadcasting, media conglomerates, and the new journalism
- Regulating the press
- The news media in other systems
- The presidency
- Congress
- The Supreme Court
- Covering public policy
- Covering foreign affairs
- National security policy
- The media and the mass public
- Effects on presidential campaigns
- Conclusion : the media's role in American democracy.