Description: Further DetailsTitle: Why Democracies Need an Unlovable PressCondition: NewEAN: 9780745644523ISBN: 9780745644523Publisher: Polity PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/26/2008Description: Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This question is at the heart of this book by world renowned sociologist and media scholar Michael Schudson. Focusing on the U.S. media but seeing them in a comparative context, Schudson brings his understanding of news as at once a story-telling and fact-centered practice to bear on a variety of controversies about what public knowledge today is and what it should be. Should experts have a role in governing democracies? Is news melodramatic or is it ironic – or is it both at different times? In the title essay, Schudson even suggests that journalism serves the interests of free expression and democracy best when it least lives up to the demands of media critics for deep thought and analysis; passion for the sensational event may be news at its democratically most powerful. Lively, provocative, unconventional, and deeply informed by a rich understanding of journalism’s history, this work collects the best of Schudson’s recent writings, including several pieces published here for the first time.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 218mmItem Length: 145mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 318gAuthor: Michael SchudsonGenre: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press
Title: Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press
EAN: 9780745644523
ISBN: 9780745644523
Release Date: 09/26/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Name: Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2008
Subject: Political Process / Media & Internet, Media Studies, History & Theory, Journalism, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Item Weight: 11.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Michael Schudson
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 8.6 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
