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"A critical approach to the cultural function of news media, arguing that news is an institution that performs a function of social control under the guise of the Fourth Estate"--

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While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward.

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Cutting edge introduction to news discourse, offering an authoritative guide to analyzing language and images and in print and online.

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Cutting edge introduction to news discourse, offering an authoritative guide to analyzing language and images and in print and online.

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A reporter assesses the state of modern journalism with a critical, but hopeful eye, covering such topics as the relationship between tabloid and traditional journalism and the death of Princess Diana.

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This is an examination of how developments in the organization, financial structures and regulation of news media, combined with changes in journalism's composition and news-gathering practices, have resulted in shifting editorial standards in newspapers, radio and television.

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The media's most important job is to present unbiased information about events, issues, and policies to the public. Arguing that the press failed to do its job since the 9/11 attacks, here, the author compares how the US and international media covered key events during this period and explores the ramifications for democracy of a weak press.

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Focuses on the insidious and increasing portion of the news media that, due to the dangerously extreme speed at which it is produced, is only half thought out, half true and lazily repeated from anonymous sources interested in selling opinion and wild speculation as news.

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Through an analysis of Iranian media reports, this book offers a unique perspective on the often difficult relations between Iran and the West.

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David Perlmutter examines icons of outrage - the indelible images that presidents and journalists alike claim drive American foreign policy and public opinion. He uncovers the hidden frames that control the visualization of foreign affairs in major crises such as the Tet offensive, Tiananmen, and the intervention in Somalia.

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Reviews the historical development of press criticism since the 1880s in each of ten categories: muckrakers, journalism reviews, columnists and authors, television press critics, press councils, advocacy groups, scholars, ombudsmen, bloggers, and satirists. This book also provides nine case studies of press criticism campaigns.

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This examination of the causes, severity, and implications of racially stereotyped media coverage of Congress incorporates original analysis of congressional media coverage and interviews with congressional press staff.

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When Rupert Murdoch called, Prime Ministers and Presidents picked up the phone. David McKnight exposes Murdoch's unflinching use of his media empire to further his political agenda over decades. This is the story behind the hacking scandal that rocked the world and shook the Murdoch empire.

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This second annual review of international newspaper and periodical history is a further continuation of the Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History. This annual also describes important sources, gives a succinct annual review of newspaper history, and reviews noteworthy new books in newspaper and periodical history.

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Including representative journals for the 20th and late 19th centuries, this book profiles the most significant conservative journals of the past century.

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Draws on media's past strengths to define a more responsive role for journalism's future. This work covers many current trends: minority voices, providing interactive community forums, reconciling informational and entertainment functions, understanding bias and creating "public opinion".

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Draws on media's past strengths to define a more responsive role for journalism's future. This work covers many current trends: minority voices, providing interactive community forums, reconciling informational and entertainment functions, understanding bias and creating "public opinion".

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It confirms that First Amendment rights were controversial issues for many nineteenth century Americans.

The Course of Tolerance examines previously ignored issues such as the Postal Bill of 1836 and press freedom during the Reconstruction period in the South, making this the most comprehensive volume on its subject to date.

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The ownership and funding of media organisations inevitably affects what news we receive everyday. But is public or private ownership better Looking at how news is constructed in different contexts under public and commercial models, this book uses global comparative examples to give a topical insight into the world of broadcasting today.

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Veteran journalist Gideon Haigh assesses the future of news media in light of the internet's effects on traditional forms of publishing and broadcasting. In the last decade, customary news media have crumbled before the effects of the internet on advertising, circulation and viewership.

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