The power of news
By: Michael Schudson.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Television broadcasting of news -- United States; American newspapers; Reporters and reporting -- United States
Description: Some say it's simply information, mirroring the world. Others believe it's propaganda, promoting a partisan view. But news, Michael Schudson tells us, is really both and neither; it is a form of culture, complete with its own literary and social conventions and powerful in ways far more subtle and complex than its many critics might suspect.

A penetrating look into this culture, The Power of News offers a compelling view of the news media's emergence as a central institution of modern society, a key repository of common knowledge and cultural authority.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index.
A collection of the author's essays and research articles previously published between 1982 and the present; the extensive introductory chapter is published here for the first time.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, News as public knowledge; title: Three hundred years of the American newspaper; title: The politics of narrative form; title: Question authority : a history of the news interview; title: What is a reporter?; title: Trout or hamburger : politics and telemythology; title: The illusion of Ronald Reagan's popularity with Elliot King; title: Watergate and the press; title: National news culture and the informational citizen; title: Was there ever a public sphere?; title: The news media and the democratic process.