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9780815736349

News & Newsmaking Essays by Stephen Hess

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  • ISBN13:

    9780815736349

  • ISBN10:

    0815736347

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1995-12-01
  • Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
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Summary

Over the last fifteen years, Stephen Hess has become a leading and much-quoted authority on Washington government and the media. In this volume, he presents a collection of his best essays on the media written over the past decade.

Author Biography

Stephen Hess is a senior fellow in the Governmental Studies program at the Brookings Institution.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Journey in Research
An Outline of the U.S. News Businessp. 1
The Washington Reporter as Insiderp. 10
All the Presidents' Reportersp. 20
The Golden Trianglep. 33
Senators Making Newsp. 46
I Am on TV Therefore I Amp. 61
Leaks and Other Informal Communicationsp. 68
Crisis, Television, and Public Pressurep. 91
Foreign Correspondents: The News about Usp. 95
Confessions of a Sound Bitep. 103
Reporting on the States in the American News Systemp. 106
A Journalism Sex Testp. 109
Race, Crime, and the Pressp. 112
Television News and Older Americansp. 115
Television News and the Loss of Placep. 118
Where Journalism Ends and Fiction Beginsp. 128
Indexp. 137
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