Good Intentions Make Bad News outlines how campaign journalism has evolved during the last twenty-five years, concluding that media partisanship plays a disproportionate role in determining electoral outcomes. S. Robert Lichter and Richard Noyes, experts in the relationship between mass communications and the political process, argue that unbalanced media coverage obscures the issues most relevant to constituents while it dramatically limits the range of legitimate political debate. The authors discuss the significance of alternative forms of political communication and provide suggestions for the 1996 elections. This in-depth study is sure to be a provocative and controversial book for scholars of political science, campaign strategy, presidential politics, and mass communications.
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Nothing in American politics attracts more commentary than the news coverage of presidential elections. Bob Lichter's devotion to the collection of hard data through content analysis of the performance of the news media distinguishes his commentary from most of the pack, and gives this book special value. -- Nelson W. Polsby, professor of political science, University of California, Berkeley; author of How Congress Evolves This book is must reading for every newsperson who wants to improve journalism, every politician who needs to understand the press's obstacle course, and every citizen who is concerned about the news media. This accessible and smoothly written volume is perfectly suited for a wide variety of classroom uses. -- Larry J. Sabato, director, University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of The Kenneday Half-Century This book is a must for scholars interested in campaign journalism and would be appropriate fare for upper-division or graduate students in journalism, political science or public affairs. * Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly * A stunning analysis that confirms Lippman's proposition that news and truth seldom coincide. -- Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard University A clear strength of the text is extensive use of actual coverage from network reports . . . This book is a must for scholars interested in campaign journalism and would be appropriate fare for upper-division or graduate students in journalism, political science, or public affairs. -- Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer, Utica College of Syracuse University The authors rightly suggest that it's time for journalists to 'narrate' the presidential campaign instead of trying to 'arbitrate' it-that is, drop editorializing and get back to reporting. . . . Perhaps the most extensive review ever of newspaper stories, TV clips, and candidates' speeches. -- Morton Kondracke * Roll Call * . . . splendid book. "An impressive piece of media criticism...definitive proof that the press can't cover scientific and medical issues without going off the deep end." -- Fred Barnes * The Weekly Standard *
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Höhe: 229 mm
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978-0-8476-8273-7 (9780847682737)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
S. Robert Lichter is the co-author of When Should the Watchdogs Bark? Media Coverage of the Clinton Scandals and Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and the New Left. He is co-director of the Center for Media and Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., and is a visiting professor of Government at Georgetown University. Richard Noyes is the Political Studies Director at the Center for Media and Public Affairs.
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Power Play Chapter 3 The Reagan Reaction Chapter 4 The Search for Substance Chapter 5 Whose Agenda is it, Anyway? Chapter 6 Freeze-Frame Journalism Chapter 7 The Media's Character Test Chapter 8 Credibility in the Balance Chapter 9 The Talk Show Campaign Chapter 10 Putting People First Chapter 11 Postscript: There They Go Again
