Media Power in Politics

by Graber, Doris A.

• ISBN13: 9780871877857
• ISBN10: 0871877856
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Summary

Although there may not be a consensus on what the media's role in politics is or should be, it is clear that the media's pervasive influence has profoundly changed politics in America. In this collection of 37 essays (15 of them new to this edition), Graber explores the history of mass media and its ability to shape political agendas. The new essay titles include, Open Season: How the News Media Cover Presidential Campaigns in the Age of Attack Journalism and I Am on TV, Therefore I Am.

Author Biography

Doris A. Graber is professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Putting Mass Media Effects in Perspective	p. 5
The Influence and Effects of Mass Media	p. 7
Political Communication Systems and Democratic Values	p. 24
Newspapers	p. 36
Framing China	p. 44
Monica Lewinsky's Contribution to Political Science	p. 48
How Synthetic Experience Shapes Social Reality	p. 57
Shaping the Political Agenda and Public Opinion	p. 66
Agenda-Setting Research: Where Has It Been, Where Is It Going?	p. 68
The Agenda-Setting Function of the Media: Child Abuse	p. 86
News Source Use in the Crash of 1987: A Study of Four National Media	p. 99
What Moves Public Opinion?	p. 112
Public Journalism and Social Capital: The Case of Madison, Wisconsin	p. 128
Constructing Public Opinion: The Uses of Fictional and Nonfictional Television in Conversations about the Environment	p. 136
Influencing Election Outcomes	p. 150
The Craft of Political Advertising: A Progress Report	p. 152
Open Season: How the News Media Cover Presidential Campaigns in the Age of Attack Journalism	p. 161
Mainstream Candidates on the Internet	p. 172
The Miscast Institution	p. 187
Trout or Hamburger: Politics and Telemythology	p. 196
The Formation of Campaign Agendas in the United States and Britain	p. 204
Controlling Media Power: Political Actors versus the Press	p. 211
The Uses of News: Theory and (Presidential) Practice	p. 213
Surrogate State Department? Times Coverage of Palestine, 1948	p. 226
How Members of Congress Use the Media to Influence Public Policy	p. 235
I Am on TV Therefore I Am	p. 246
The Media and Watergate	p. 255
Media, Protest, and Political Violence: A Transactional Analysis	p. 263
Guiding Public Policies	p. 278
Homicide and Bargained Justice: The Agenda-Setting Effect of Crime News on Prosecutors	p. 280
Mass Media Roles in Foreign Policy	p. 292
Reporting the Gulf War	p. 304
The Impact of Investigative Reporting on Public Opinion and Policy Making: Targeting Toxic Waste	p. 313
The Role of the Press in the Health Care Reform Debate of 1993-1994	p. 327
Interest Groups, the Media, and Policy Debate Formation: An Analysis of Message Structure, Rhetoric, and Source Cues	p. 337
Regulating and Manipulating Media Effects	p. 349
Communications Policy and the Public Interest	p. 351
Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia	p. 363
How Policy Makers Deal with the Press	p. 376
Ethical Conflict and Investigative Reporting: Le Monde and the Contaminated Blood Affair	p. 385
World Opinion During Times of Crisis	p. 396
Strategic Communication	p. 407
Index	p. 418
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