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Scandal and Silence - Media Response to Presidential Misconduct (Paperback)
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Scandal and Silence - Media Response to Presidential Misconduct (Paperback)
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Loot Price R576
Discovery Miles 5 760
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This timely and engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on
media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that
media crave and actively pursue scandals whenever they sense
corruption. Scandal and Silence argues for a different perspective.
Using case studies from the period 1988-2008, it shows 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 governments and political parties that drive the
process and any excesses that might occur; * Significant scandals
are indeed 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. Sometimes, bad behavior
stimulates an avalanche of media attention with demonstrable
political consequences, yet other times, equally shoddy activity
receives little notice. This book advances a theoretical model to
explain these differences, revealing an underlying logic to what
might seem arbitrary and capricious journalism. Through case
studies of the draft and military scandals involving Dan Quayle,
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and John Kerry; alleged sexual
misconduct of politicians including but not limited to Clinton; and
questionable financial dealings of Clinton and George W Bush, the
book builds a new understanding of media scandals which will be
essential reading for anyone concerned with the relationship
between media and democracy today.
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