Scandal and silence
Subtitle: media responses to presidential misconduct
By: Robert M. Entman
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780745647623; 9780745647630
Subjects: Scandals; Political aspects; Press coverage; Scandals in mass media; Presidents; Corrupt practices; Mass media; Sexual behavior; History
Other titles: Media responses to presidential misconduct
Description: The author argues that "media neglect most corruption, providing too little, not too much scandal coverage; scandals arise from rational, controlled processes, not emotional frenzies -- and when scandals happen, it's not the media but government and political parties that drive the process and any excesses that might occur; significant scandals are difficult for news organizations to initiate and harder for them to maintain and bring to appropriate closure; for these reasons cover-ups and lying often work, and truth remains essentially unrecorded, unremembered."--Back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: High crimes or misdemeanors?; title: Analyzing media and presidential scandal; title: Private lives in the public sphere : what do journalists know, and when do they tell it?; title: Secret sins of 2008 : the McCain, Edwards and Clinton families' values; title: Dodging scandals; title: and the draft; title: Rathergate : from a scandal of politics to a scandal of journalism; title: Harkening to other matters : what news looks like when a scandal is silenced; title: Silenced scandals of grave misconduct; title: Recalibrating scandal and silence.