We Keep America on Top of the World : Television Journalism and the Public Sphere PDF
by Daniel Hallin
Part of the Communication and Society series
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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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- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Taylor and Francis
- Publication Date:14/09/2006
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- ISBN:9780203977477
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Taylor and Francis
- Publication Date:14/09/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780203977477
