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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: The News about Democracy | ||
Ch. 1 | What's News? The Construction of Political Reality | 1 |
Press-Politics | 2 | |
News Images and Political Realities | 4 | |
Inside the News System | 6 | |
Economics versus Democracy | 8 | |
Information Systems and Their Limits | 9 | |
News as Social Construct | 11 | |
From Mass Media to Media Monopoly | 14 | |
More Channels, More Choices? | 15 | |
Different Package, Same Contents? | 17 | |
Is Television the Problem? | 23 | |
A Definition of News | 26 | |
Why the News Matters: The Political Gatekeeper | 26 | |
Imagining Other Kinds of News | 29 | |
Where Do the People Fit into the Information Picture? | 31 | |
Ch. 2 | News Content: Messages for the Masses | 37 |
Four Information Biases in the News: An Overview | 39 | |
Four Information Biases in the News: An In-Depth Look | 47 | |
Personalized News | 48 | |
Dramatized News | 52 | |
Fragmented News | 58 | |
Normalized News | 64 | |
News Bias Reconsidered | 72 | |
Ch. 3 | How Politicians Make the News | 77 |
The Politics of Illusion | 78 | |
News Images as Political Reality | 80 | |
The Goals of Image Making | 81 | |
The Techniques of Image Making | 85 | |
Symbols and Their Political Uses | 86 | |
Defining the Political Situation | 88 | |
News Control: Getting the Message Across | 90 | |
Press Relations: From Cooperation to Intimidation | 100 | |
The Effects of News Control | 106 | |
Why Images Prevail | 110 | |
What Comes First: Apathy or Disinformation? | 112 | |
Ch. 4 | How Journalists Report the News | 117 |
The Importance of Work Routines and Professional Norms | 118 | |
How Reporting Practices Contribute to News Bias | 118 | |
Reporters and Officials: Pressures to Cooperate | 119 | |
Reporters as Members of News Organizations: Pressures to Standardize | 123 | |
The Paradox of Organizational Routines | 126 | |
Reporters as a Pack: Pressures to Agree | 129 | |
When Journalism Works | 135 | |
Ch. 5 | Inside the Profession: Objectivity and Other Double Standards | 141 |
Why Objective Reporting Does Not Work | 142 | |
Fairness: The New Objectivity | 143 | |
Professional Journalism Standards | 145 | |
Professional Practices and News Distortion | 149 | |
The Adversarial Role of the Press | 149 | |
Standards of Decency and Good Taste | 153 | |
Documentary Reporting Practices | 157 | |
The Use of Stories as Standardized News Formats | 157 | |
Reporters as Generalists | 159 | |
The Practice of Editorial Review | 161 | |
Objectivity Reconsidered | 162 | |
Ch. 6 | The Public: Prisoners of the News? | 167 |
The Prisoner's Dilemma | 168 | |
Prisoners Who Can Think for Themselves | 169 | |
Why the News Still Matters | 170 | |
Common Patterns of Information Processing | 171 | |
Other Reasons People Follow the News | 180 | |
Escaping the News Prison | 189 | |
Ch. 7 | Freedom from the Press: Solutions for Concerned Citizens | 193 |
News and Power in America: The Ideal versus the Reality | 195 | |
Why the Myth of a Free Press Persists | 197 | |
Critical Proposals for Citizens, Journalists and Politicians | 200 | |
Proposals for Citizens | 200 | |
Proposals for Journalists | 207 | |
Proposals for Politicians and Government | 211 | |
The Perils of Virtual Democracy | 218 | |
Index | 221 | |
About the Author | 233 |
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