About this title: This is an analysis of the failure of the interaction between the news media and their audiences to create the democratic potential everyone assumes occurs with such interaction. Drawing illustrations mainly from the Carter and Reagan years, the book shows the dilemma facing the news media and their audience today. The book offers a portrait of citizenship in America, defined by the public's changing levels of political knowledge and participation from 1952 to 1984. Politically unsophisticated, the mass audience prefers simple, symbolic news, which means that journalists can offer little of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780195053135ISBN:0195053133
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780195053135ISBN:0195053133
Description: Good. UNDERLINING, MARGINAL NOTES. No dust jacket. Light smudge, sticker residue to front board. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780195065763ISBN:019506576X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice copy! Same or next day shipping! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780195065763ISBN:019506576X
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Moderate cover, edge wear. Pages good, some high light. Identifies a 'vicious circle of interdependence' as the key dilemma facing American journalism. He argues that the mass media cannot provide consistently high-quality, independent political journalism, because selling such a product--which might create a sophisticated citizenry--requires an audience that is already sophisticated. 232 pages. Few bookstore marks. read more
Edition: First edition. First Printing.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780195053135ISBN:0195053133
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Clean, tight, square, unmarked, no prev owner name. Light freckling top of page block. Sharp corners, no bumps. Unclipped DJ shows no fading, chipping, or rubs. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 248 p. Audience: General/trade. Entman demonstrates the impossibility of a free press in an uninformed society. Entman thoughtfully suggests a way out of the vicious circle in which the media, politics, and the citizenry find themselves. This copy is a very clean First/First in ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OUP USA
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780195065763ISBN:019506576X
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