Making Laws and Making News
Media Strategies in the U.S. House of Representatives
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2010
232 pages
978-0-8157-1728-7 (ISBN)
Description
The news media, especially television, have become a fixture on Capitol Hill in the past twenty years. Making Laws and Making News describes the interactive relationship between the press and Congress that strongly affects the news, the legislative process, and the types of laws enacted. Instead of focusing on how reporters decide who and what to cover and how news is resented, Cook examines the other side of the equation¿the relationship between the media strategies of House member's press offices and the legislative strategies of the members themselves. The book won the 1990 Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-8157-1728-7 (9780815717287)
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08/1990
Brookings Institution
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Person
By Timothy Cook
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- MAKING THE CONNECTIONS
- Observation: Publicity Drives Out Legislating
- Response: Publicity Is Irrelevant to Legislating
- A Third Possibility: Making News Leads to Making Laws
- The Capitol Hill Perspective
- REGULATION AND ACCOMMODATION
- Before the Reporter
- Beginnings of the Washington Press Corps
- Toward Modern Washington Journalism
- Entry of the Electronic Media
- Who Leads the Dance?
- HOUSE REPORTERS AND HOUSE REPORTING
- A Permeable Press Corps
- What and Who Become News
- The Shape of Congressional Coverage
- Localizing and Specializing
- PRESS SECRETARIES AND PRESS STRATEGIES
- The Professionalizing of Press Secretaries
- Local and National Newsmaking
- Media Strategies in the High-Tech Era
- The House in the Media Age
- GETTING REELECTED
- Press Secretaries' Priorities
- Campaign Coverage
- Media Strategy and Publicity
- Publicity and Voters Decisions
- Less Is Not More for the Voters
- SETTING THE CONGRESSIONAL AGENDA
- The Media and the Agenda
- Choosing an Issue
- Party Leaders and the Agenda
- Selling the Issue: A Case Study
- Congressional Agendas and Media Agendas
- ENACTING LEGISLATION
- Can Complementarity Work?
- The Outsider and the Inside Strategy
- The Insider and the Outside Strategy
- Legislating under the Spotlight
- MEDIA POWER AND CONGRESSIONAL POWER
- Policymaking Processes and the Media
- Congress and Mass-Mediated Democracy
- APPENDIX A: METHODOLOGY
- APPENDIX B: HOUSE MEMBERS AND NETWORK EVENING NEWS
- APPENDIX C: PRESS SECRETARY'S JOB DESCRIPTION
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
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- W
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