We Keep America on Top of the World
eBook - ePub

We Keep America on Top of the World

Television Journalism and the Public Sphere

  1. 196 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

We Keep America on Top of the World

Television Journalism and the Public Sphere

About this book

We Keep America on Top of the World is a lucid exploration of contemporary American journalism, with particular emphasis on its influential and controversial conponent - television news. Daniel Hallin's discussion encompasses the central and most controversial issues in the study of journalism: the wars in Vietnam and Central America; US-Soviet summits; the origin of the ten-second soundbite; the differences between print and television journalism; and the tension between professionalism and populism.
We Keep America on Top of the World offers a distinctive approach to understanding an institution torn between the imperatives of the market, political ideology and popular fashion, and journalistic professionalism. It will be essential reading for students of media, communication and journalism.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
eBook ISBN
9781134874477
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 Introduction: American journalism and the public sphere
  8. 2 The American news media: a critical theory perspective
  9. 3 The media, the war in Vietnam, and political support: a critique of the thesis of an oppositional media
  10. 4 From Vietnam to El Salvador: hegemony and ideological change
  11. 5 ‘We Keep America on Top of the World:’ TV news in the age of Reagan
  12. 6 Speaking of the president: political structure and representational form in US and Italian television news
  13. 7 Soundbite news: television coverage of elections, 1968–88
  14. 8 Summits and the constitution of an international public sphere: the Reagan-Gorbachev meetings as televised media events
  15. 9 The passing of the ‘high modernism’ of American journalism
  16. Index