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Democracy without citizens : media and the decay of American politics /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1989.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198022022 0198022026 9780195065763 019506576X 0195053133 9780195053135 1280525223 9781280525223 9786610525225 6610525226 |