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Do the Media Govern?
Politicians, Voters, and Reporters in America

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Political Communication

March 1997 | 488 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This is the first book dealing with the media and North American politics that brings together the perspectives of academics, reporters, commentators, campaign consultants and policy makers.

The contributions combine the best social science research on political communication with the expertise of some of America's leading journalists and political consultants. The book covers an extensive range of research issues including: the forces that influence the production of news stories; the relationship between reporters and elected officials; the use of the media in political campaigns; the effects of news presentations on public opinion; and the increasing importance of the mass media in the policy process.

Richard Reeves
The Brave New World of Media Politics
 
PART ONE: REPORTERS, REPORTING AND THE BUSINESS OF NEWS
Richard Reeves
Overview
Lou Cannon
The Socialization of Reporters
David H Weaver and G Cleveland Wilhoit
The American Journalist in the 1990s
Bill Boyarsky
Covering the OJ Trial
Rita Braver
Show and Tell
Reporters Meet Politicians on Larry King Live

 
Richard Reeves
Oliver Stone and History
Richard Cohen et al
Combat Stories
Daniel C Hallin
Sound-Bite News
Television Coverage of Elections

 
Ben Bagdikian
The US Media
Supermarket or Assembly Line?

 
Ken Auletta
Three Blind Mice
Ken Auletta
Raiding the Global Village
Jeff Greenfield
The Business of Television News
 
PART TWO: REPORTERS AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS: WHO USES WHOM?
Richard Reeves
Overview
W Lance Bennett
Cracking the News Code
Some Rules That Journalists Live By

 
William A Dorman
Press Theory and Journalistic Practice
The Case of the Gulf War

 
Benjamin Bradlee
Lying
The Theodore H White Lecture at Harvard University

 
Daniel Schoor
Who Uses Whom?
The Theodore H White Lecture at Harvard University

 
 
PART THREE: MEDIA-BASED POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS
Shanto Iyengar
Overview
Larry Bartels et al
Are Media Campaigns Effective?
Stephen Ansolabehere, Shanto Iyengar and Adam Simon
Shifting Perspectives on the Effects of Campaign Communication
Kim F Kahn and Edie N Goldenberg
The Media
Obstacle or Ally of Feminists?

 
Celinda Lake, Linda DiVall and Shanto Iyengar
Women as Political Candidates
Was 1992 the Year of the Woman?

 
Samuel L Popkin
Voter Learning in the 1992 Presidential Campaign
John R Petrocik
Campaigning and the Press
The Influence of the Candidates

 
Stephen Ansolabehere et al
Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate?
 
PART FOUR: THE EFFECTS OF NEWS ON THE AUDIENCE: MINIMAL OR MAXIMAL CONSEQUENCES
Shanto Iyengar
Overview
Michael D Dimock and Samuel L Popkin
Political Knowledge in Comparative Perspective
Everett M Rogers, William B Hart and James W Dearing
A Paradigmatic History of Agenda-Setting Research
Maxwell McCombs and George Estrada
The News Media and the Pictures in Our Heads
Shanto Iyengar and Adam Simon
News Coverage of the Gulf Crisis and Public Opinion
A Study of Agenda-Setting, Priming, and Framing

 
Joanne M Miller and Jon A Krosnick
The Anatomy of News Media Priming
Shanto Iyengar
Framing Responsibility for Political Issues
The Case of Poverty

 
Robert M Entman
Modern Racism and Images of Blacks in Local Television News
Franklin Gilliam et al
Crime in Black and White
The Violent, Scary World of Local News

 
John R Zaller
A Model of Communication Effects at the Outbreak of the Gulf War
 
PART FIVE: THE USE OF MEDIA IN THE POLICY PROCESS
Shanto Iyengar
Overview
Sam Kernell
The Theory and Practice of Going Public
Richard Anderson
Going Public in Undemocratic Polities
Frank R Baumgartner, Bryan D Jones and Beth L Leech
Media Attention and Congressional Agendas
Mike McCurry
Press Briefing by Press Secretary
October 12 1995

 
 
Remarks by President Bill Clinton at the Second Americorps Swearing-In Ceremony
October 12 1995

 
Jarol B Manheim
Going Less Public
Managing Images to Influence US Foreign Policy

 
Michael Pertschuk
Putting Media Effects Research to Work
Lessons for Community Groups Who Would Be Heard

 
Susan Bales
Talking Back, Ernie Pyle Style
Vincent Schiraldi and Dan Maccalair
Framing the Framers
Changing the Debate over Juvenile Crime in San Francisco

 
Liana Winett
Advocate's Guide to Developing Framing Memos

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