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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Entman, Robert M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • Results
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.