Table of Contents

The Brave New World of Media Politics - Richard Reeves
PART ONE: REPORTERS, REPORTING AND THE BUSINESS OF NEWS
Overview - Richard Reeves
The Socialization of Reporters - Lou Cannon
The American Journalist in the 1990s - David H Weaver and G Cleveland Wilhoit
Covering the OJ Trial - Bill Boyarsky
Show and Tell - Rita Braver
Reporters Meet Politicians on Larry King Live
Oliver Stone and History - Richard Reeves
Combat Stories - Richard Cohen et al
Sound-Bite News - Daniel C Hallin
Television Coverage of Elections
The US Media - Ben Bagdikian
Supermarket or Assembly Line?
Three Blind Mice - Ken Auletta
Raiding the Global Village - Ken Auletta
The Business of Television News - Jeff Greenfield
PART TWO: REPORTERS AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS: WHO USES WHOM?
Overview - Richard Reeves
Cracking the News Code - W Lance Bennett
Some Rules That Journalists Live By
Press Theory and Journalistic Practice - William A Dorman
The Case of the Gulf War
Lying - Benjamin Bradlee
The Theodore H White Lecture at Harvard University
Who Uses Whom? - Daniel Schoor
The Theodore H White Lecture at Harvard University
PART THREE: MEDIA-BASED POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS
Overview - Shanto Iyengar
Are Media Campaigns Effective? - Larry Bartels et al
Shifting Perspectives on the Effects of Campaign Communication - Stephen Ansolabehere, Shanto Iyengar and Adam Simon
The Media - Kim F Kahn and Edie N Goldenberg
Obstacle or Ally of Feminists?
Women as Political Candidates - Celinda Lake, Linda DiVall and Shanto Iyengar
Was 1992 the Year of the Woman?
Voter Learning in the 1992 Presidential Campaign - Samuel L Popkin
Campaigning and the Press - John R Petrocik
The Influence of the Candidates
Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate? - Stephen Ansolabehere et al
PART FOUR: THE EFFECTS OF NEWS ON THE AUDIENCE: MINIMAL OR MAXIMAL CONSEQUENCES
Overview - Shanto Iyengar
Political Knowledge in Comparative Perspective - Michael D Dimock and Samuel L Popkin
A Paradigmatic History of Agenda-Setting Research - Everett M Rogers, William B Hart and James W Dearing
The News Media and the Pictures in Our Heads - Maxwell McCombs and George Estrada
News Coverage of the Gulf Crisis and Public Opinion - Shanto Iyengar and Adam Simon
A Study of Agenda-Setting, Priming, and Framing
The Anatomy of News Media Priming - Joanne M Miller and Jon A Krosnick
Framing Responsibility for Political Issues - Shanto Iyengar
The Case of Poverty
Modern Racism and Images of Blacks in Local Television News - Robert M Entman
Crime in Black and White - Franklin Gilliam et al
The Violent, Scary World of Local News
A Model of Communication Effects at the Outbreak of the Gulf War - John R Zaller
PART FIVE: THE USE OF MEDIA IN THE POLICY PROCESS
Overview - Shanto Iyengar
The Theory and Practice of Going Public - Sam Kernell
Going Public in Undemocratic Polities - Richard Anderson
Media Attention and Congressional Agendas - Frank R Baumgartner, Bryan D Jones and Beth L Leech
Press Briefing by Press Secretary - Mike McCurry
October 12 1995
Remarks by President Bill Clinton at the Second Americorps Swearing-In Ceremony
October 12 1995
Going Less Public - Jarol B Manheim
Managing Images to Influence US Foreign Policy
Putting Media Effects Research to Work - Michael Pertschuk
Lessons for Community Groups Who Would Be Heard
Talking Back, Ernie Pyle Style - Susan Bales
Framing the Framers - Vincent Schiraldi and Dan Maccalair
Changing the Debate over Juvenile Crime in San Francisco
Advocate′s Guide to Developing Framing Memos - Liana Winett

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