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The power of news /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schudson, Michael
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995.
Subjects:	Television broadcasting of news > United States. American newspapers. Reporters and reporting > United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction, News as public knowledge
Three hundred years of the American newspaper
The politics of narrative form
Question authority : a history of the news interview
What is a reporter?
Trout or hamburger : politics and telemythology
The illusion of Ronald Reagan's popularity with Elliot King
Watergate and the press
National news culture and the informational citizen
Was there ever a public sphere?
The news media and the democratic process.