| Description |
xi, 516 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Longman series in public communication |
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Longman series in public communication.
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| Contents |
I. IMPACT OF MASS MEDIA -- ++ Media and a changing America / Leo Bogart -- ++ The Rise of the Newsocracy / Louis Banks -- ++ Are we better informed now : or worse? / John Weisman -- II. FREEDOM VERSUS RESPONSIBILITY -- ++ How the press is copping out / Harrison Schmitt -- ++ Media power : on closer inspection, it's not that threatening / Albert E. Gollin -- ++ Objectivity precludes responsibility / Theodore L. Glasser -- ++ The Might of the media : media self-censorship / Robert G. Picard |
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III. MASS MEDIA AND ETHICS -- ++ An Epidemic of arrogance / Clark R. Mollenhoff -- ++ Media ethics in perspective / Claude-Jean Bertrand -- ++ Those newsroom ethics codes / Karen Schneider and Marc Gunther -- ++ AIDS : reporting the tragedy / Margaret Genovese -- ++ When a public figure's private life is news / Carl Sessions Stepp -- IV. MASS MEDIA, ACCESS, AND PRESSURE GROUPS -- ++ The Citizens movement takes a turn / Susan Witty -- ++ The Charge of the right brigade / Robert Becker, Judy Kantrowitz, Conrad MacKerron, Nick Ravo, and Susie Smith -- ++ Who's watching the watchdog? / Neil D. Swan |
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V. CRIME, VIOLENCE, AND THE MASS MEDIA -- ++ Crime doesn't pay expect on the newsstands / Mitchell Stephens -- ++ Go get some milk and cookies and watch the murders on television / Daniel Schorr -- ++ Terrorism / Maargaret Genovese -- ++ What did Mr. Dwyer do, Daddy? / David B. Dick -- VI. SEX AND SENSATIONALISM IN THE MASS MEDIA -- ++ Censor entertainment? Teens, parents speak up / U.S. News & World Report -- ++ Sex in the media / Jane D. Brown -- ++ Dirty words and blushing editors : Warning this article is rated X / Linda Lotridge Levin |
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VII. MASS MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT -- ++ The Media as shadow government / William L. Rivers -- ++ Dealing with the media / Griffin B. Bell with Ronald J. Ostrow -- ++ The Fourth branch of government / Walter H. Annenberg -- ++ The Press and the President : there they go again / George E. Reedy -- ++ Always on Saturday? / Ron Nessen -- IX. WAR, THE MILITARY, AND THE MEDIA -- ++ War isn't war without TV / Ammon Rubinstein -- ++ Beirut- and the Press- under seige / Roger Morris -- ++ How Britain managed the News / Leonard Downie, Jr. -- ++ Too bad for our side : war is a video game / Ben J. Wattenbrg -- ++ War coverage in a TV age / Nick Thimmesch -- ++ In defense of casualty pictures on TV / Ellen Goodman |
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X. MASS MEDIA AND NATIONALISM -- ++ Eyeball-to-eyeball with the Big Red PR machine / David M. Rubin -- ++ The Television pharaoh / Doreen Kays -- ++ Islands in the swirl of the storm / Tom Shales -- ++ Separating fact from fantasy : Letter from Managua / June Carolyn Erlick -- XI. MASS MEDIA AND MINORITIES -- ++ American Indians and the media : neglect and sterotype / James E. Murphy and Sharon M. Murphy -- ++ The Navajos, the Hopis, and the U.S. Press / Jerry Kammer -- ++ The Emergence of Blacks on Television / Regina G. Sherard -- ++ The Black Press : down but not out / Phyl Garland -- ++ Minority press / Marcia Ruth |
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XII. MASS MEDIA AND WOMEN -- ++ Getting there : women in the newsroom / Terri Schultz-Brooks -- ++ Mythogyny / Caryl Rivers -- ++ Women's magazines / Sheila J. Gibbons -- ++ Bringing the moving picture into focus / Lori Kesler -- XIII. MASS MEDIA AND RELIGION -- ++ Media view religion in a News light / David Shaw -- ++ Not ready for prime-time prayers / Cal Thomas -- ++ The New Awakening : getting religion in the Video Age / Margaret O'Brien Steinfels and Peter Steinfels -- ++ Exploring the roles of the ethnic press / Robert Israel |
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XIV. BUSINESS AND MASS MEDIA -- ++ Business and the media : sterotyping each other / Jim Hoge -- ++ The ++ Corporate complaint against the media / Peter Dreier -- ++ Business and the media : sometimes partners, sometimes adversaries / Ward Smith -- ++ Media and business elites / S. Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman -- XV. MASS MEDIA AND CULTURE -- ++ The Guilt edge / Clark Whelton -- ++ Archie Bunker and the liberal mind / Christopher Lasch -- ++ Showdown at Culture Gulch / Brian Winston -- XVI. MASS MEDIA, THE NEW TECHNILOGY AND THE FUTURE -- ++ Pass the sugar and the video tube, dear / Jerome Aumente -- ++ Condominiums in the global village / Richard A. Blake -- ++ The Second American Revolution / Benjamin Barber |
| Analysis |
United States Mass media |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Influence.
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Mass media -- United States.
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| Author |
Hiebert, Ray Eldon.
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Reuss, Carol.
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| LC no. |
87016743 |
| ISBN |
0801300401 (paperback) |
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