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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Timothy E Cook |
ISBN: | 0226115038 9780226115030 0226115011 9780226115016 |
OCLC Number: | 723500929 |
Description: | XI, 313 Seiten. |
Series Title: | Studies in communication, media, and public opinion |
Responsibility: | Timothy E. Cook. |
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"Provocative and often wise.... Cook, who has a complex understanding of the relationship between governing and the news, provides a fascinating account of the origins of this complicity." - James Bennet, Washington Monthly; "Governing with the News addresses central issues of media impact and power in fresh, illuminating ways.... Cook mines a wealth of historical and organizational literature to assert that the news media are a distinct political institution in our democratic system." - Robert Schmuhl, Commonweal; "While we worry about the media's influence on politics, we rarely notice that journalists are political actors, part of the governing system, a means for raising issues and getting them advanced.... Cook's dead-on analysis is a model of engaged scholarship." - Jay Rosen, Nation" Read more...

