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The Power of News (Paperback, Revised)
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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. One of our
foremost writers on journalism and mass communication, Schudson
shows us the news evolving in concert with American democracy and
industry, subject to the social forces that shape the culture at
large. He excavates the origins of contemporary journalistic
practices, including the interview, the summary lead, the
preoccupation with the presidency, and the ironic and detached
stance of the reporter toward the political world. His book
explodes certain myths perpetuated by both journalists and critics.
The press, for instance, did not bring about the Spanish-American
War or bring down Richard Nixon; TV did not decide the
Kennedy-Nixon debates or turn the public against the Vietnam War.
Then what does the news do? True to their calling, the media
mediate, as Schudson demonstrates. He analyzes how the news, by
making knowledge public, actually changes the character of
knowledge and allows people to act on that knowledge in new and
significant ways. He brings to bear a wealth of historical
scholarship and a keen sense for the apt questions about the
production, meaning, and reception of news today.
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