Class and news
By: edited by Don Heider.
Contributors: Heider, Don
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Social classes -- United States; Social stratification -- United States; Social classes -- Press coverage -- United States; Television broadcasting of news -- Social aspects -- United States; Journalism -- Social aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Media, class, and power: debunking the myth of a classless society /  Deepa Kumar; title: Choosing sources: how the press perpetrated the myth of the single mother on welfare /  Janet Blank-Libra; title: Poor people in the news: images from the journalistic subconscious /  Martin Gilens; title: Picturing class: mining the field of front-page photographs for keys to accidental communities of memory /  Julianne H. Newton ...  [et al.]; title: Class and local TV news /  Don Heider,  Koji Fuse; title: Social stratification potential of tabloid and highbrow newsmagazine programs /  Maria Elizabeth Grabe; title: Constructing a televisual class: newsmagazines and social class /  Jennie Phillips; title: Calling class: sports announcers and the culture of poverty /  James Rada,  K. Tim Wulfemeyer; title: "America is a middle-class nation": the presentation of class in the pages of Life /  Sheila Webb; title: Tales told in two cities: when missing girls are(n't) news /  Carol Liebler; title: "Trailer park trash": news, ideology, and depictions of the American underclass /  Joseph Harry; title: Emergence of class consciousness in the American newspaper guild /  Bonnie Brennen; title: Writing the workers' World Trade Center: an analysis of reportage on Ground Zero in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 /  Laura Hapke; title: UPS strike coverage and the future of labor in corporate news /  Christopher R. Martin; title: Good news from a bad neighborhood: urban journalism and community assets /  James S. Ettema,  Limor Peer; title: Class and media influence in Australia /  Paul Jones,  Michael Pusey; title: Television civic journalism and the portrayal of class /  David D. Kurpius.