The media rhetoric of Law and order
Subtitle: how ABC framed the Mumia Abu-Jamal story
By: Thomas N. Gardner ; with a foreword by Robert W. McChesney.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773446830
Subjects: Abu-Jamal, Mumia; Mass media -- Objectivity -- United States; Truthfulness and falsehood -- United States; Magazine format television programs -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal; title: The TV news magazine genre in the corporate media world; title: Examining television at the juncture of rhetoric and cultural studies; title: Cultivation analysis and the shaping of the frame; title: Media literacy as cultural intervention; title: Methodology; title: Rhetorical analysis of "Hollywood's unlikely hero" and "framing an execution"; title: Findings from experimental design; title: Findings from focus groups; title: Conclusions.