Title: The Media Elite
Content:  The Media Elite: America's New Powerbrokers is a non-fiction book written by S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman, and Linda Lichter, published in 1986. It details a social scientific study of the ideological commitments of elite journalists in the United States, and the consequences of those commitments on both the reporting itself and on its reception by the public. The book states that because of the political opinions of journalists, the elite media has a liberal media bias.
Title: Samuel Robert Lichter
Content:  Lichter has authored or co-authored fourteen books and over a hundred scholarly articles and monographs on the news and entertainment media. His best-known work, The Media Elite, (written with Stanley Rothman and Linda Lichter, and funded by conservative foundations) argued that journalists, on average, held more liberal political views than the general public, and that their backgrounds and outlooks affect their coverage of the news. This claim was extended by conservative pundits as evidence for a liberal bias in the media. It also provoked widespread debate among journalists and their critics. The Media Elite was based on interviews with major media journalists 
Title: Elite media
Content:  The elite media is newspapers, radio stations, TV channels, and other media that influence the political agenda of other mass media. According to Noam Chomsky, "[t]he elite media set a framework within which others operate. The New York Times is used as an example of elite media by both Chomsky, a left-wing intellectual, and Bill O'Reilly, a right-wing commentator. The newspaper is in a structural position within the mass media, rather than a particular political agenda. Conservatives may use the "Elite media" or "Media elite" in a pejorative context, referring to elites in reporting having scorn or disdain for working-class needs and values, and allegations that the reporting is biased and untrustworthy.
Title: Influence of mass media
Content:  This theory suggests that the mass media is able to establish dominance by reflecting the opinion of social elites, who also own and controls it, described by sociologist Todd Gitlin as a kind of "importance, similar to the faulty concept of power". By owning, or sponsoring particular medium, the elites are capable to alter what people perceived from the use of mass media.
Title: The Media Elite
Content:  The survey revealed a group of individuals at once remarkably similar to one another in background, status, and beliefs and strikingly different from the general public. In 1980, this "media elite" was predominantly white (95 percent), male (79 percent), college-educated (93 percent), and well paid. Four out of five had been raised in relatively affluent business or professional families; two out of three came from states in the Northeast or industrial Midwest. In terms of beliefs, one distinctive characteristic was a strongly secular outlook. In marked contrast to a 1977 Gallup poll of the general population in which 94 percent of respondents professed a religious faith, 50 percent of the elite 
Title: The Media Elite
Content:  The book is based on a survey, completed in 1980, of 238 journalists randomly selected from America's most influential news organizations: ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Content analysis and audience reception studies were used to determine if deviations between the views held by journalists and those held by the general public had any effect on the way the news gets reported and the resulting beliefs held by the public. Some aspects of the methodology have been challenged, and the authors debated their critics in academic journals. Alleged problems with the methodology included: a low sample size; poor randomization; the failure to include media owners, managers, or editors in the samples; the inadequate use of proper polling techniques; the use of biased questions; point of view assertions by the studies authors that arbitrarily qualified some things as conservative or liberal; the failure to adequately measure the general public's attitudes; and poor statistical analysis of the results.
Title: Eli Noam
Content: Who Owns the World’s Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World (Oxford, 2016) ; Media Ownership and Concentration in America (Oxford, 2009). Received the Picard Prize for Best Book in Media Economics in 2010 by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Media ; Interconnecting the Network of Networks (MIT, 2001) ; Telecommunications in Europe (Oxford, 1992) ; Television in Europe (Oxford, 1992) ; Broadband Networks, Smart Grids and Climate Change (Springer, 2012) ; Peer-to-Peer Video as a distribution Medium: The Economics, Policy, and Culture of Today’s New Mass Medium (Springer, 2008) ; Mobile Media: Content and Services for Wireless Communications (Erlbaum, 2005) ; Internet Television 
Title: Popular culture
Content:  Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky critiqued the mass media in their 1988 work Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. They argue that mass media is controlled by a powerful hegemonic elite who are motivated by their own interests that determine and manipulate what information is present in the mainstream. The mass media is therefore a system of propaganda.
Title: The Media Elite
Content:  the decade from 1975 to 1985 found conservatives outnumbering liberals in the electorate, often by a ratio of three to two or more. Of course, partisan or ideological labels provide only a very rough indication of political orientation. Thus one of the great strengths of the Media Elite survey is that it also included several sets of more precise questions about political attitudes and behaviors. One set asked how the journalists had voted in each of the last four presidential elections (i.e., 1964–76). It produced what is now probably the most frequently quoted datum in the media bias debate: Among elite journalists who voted for a major party candidate, support for 
Title: The Power Elite
Content:  In 2017, episode 5 of the Netflix TV series Mindhunter contains a scene in which one of the main characters, a sociology PhD student Deborah "Debbie" Mitford, writes a paper on The Power Elite. In the Noah Baumbach film While We're Young, the protagonist Josh Schrebnick is a documentarian who cites Mills, and frequently cites the expertise of the subject of his documentary, Ira Mandelstam's views as they relate to The Power Elite.

Question: Who is the author of The Media Elite?
Answer: Samuel Robert Lichter.