The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World
by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Paul Waldman
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

A wide-ranging critique of the press and its role in American democracy, notes the failings of the press to provide essential public information that would fill voids in the reporting of political campaigns, describing such events and the 2000 general election and how it represents the ways that politicians and reporters affect language and politics. (Communications)