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Governing with the news : the news media as a political institution / Timothy E. Cook.
Author
Cook, Timothy E., 1954-2006
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1998.
Description
xi, 289 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PN4738 .C66 1998
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Government and the press
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United States
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History
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Press and politics
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United States
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History
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Series
Studies in communication, media, and public opinion
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Summary note
From the opening decades of the republic when political parties sponsored newspapers to current governmental practices that actively subsidize the collection and dissemination of the news, the press and the government have been far from independent. Unlike those earlier days, however, the news is no longer produced by a diverse range of individual outlets but is instead the result of a collective institution that exercises collective power. In explaining how the news media of today operate as an intermediary political institution, akin to the party system and interest group system, Cook demonstrates how the differing media strategies used by governmental agencies and branches respond to the constitutional and structural weaknesses inherent in a separation-of-powers system. Cook examines the news media's capacity to perform the political tasks that they have inherited and points the way to a debate on policy solutions in order to hold the news media accountable without treading upon the freedom of the press.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-266) and index.
Contents
Part one : the political development of the American news media
The decline of the sponsored press: American newspapers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
The subsidized news media
Part two : the media as a political institution
The institutional news media
The political news media
Part three : government by publicity
The uses of news: theory and (presidential) practice
Beyond the White House
Conclusion : the first amendment and the fourth branch- toward redesigning a news media policy.
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ISBN
0226114996 ((alk. paper))
9780226114996 ((alk. paper))
0226115003 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780226115009 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
97023716
OCLC
37115952
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