The Media Effect by Jim Willis
In a postmodern age where the media's depictions of reality serve as stand-ins for the real thing for so many Americans, how much government policy is being made on the basis of those mediated realities and on the public reaction to them?
Willis synthesizes the research literature on the American media, focusing primarily on the question of how media representations influence government decision- making, particularly the decision to go to warHe discusses how the media chooses what to cover and the media's ability or inability to cover stories accurately. He also discusses questions of media literacy, the symbiotic relationship between politicians and the media, and examples of how presidents have sought to manage media coverage throughout American history. * Reference & Research Book News *
Jim Willis is a former newspaper reporter and editor for the Oklahoman and the Dallas Morning News who has been teaching journalism at the university level since 1980. He holds a Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Missouri, and he currently chairs the Department of Communication Studies at Azusa Pacific University. He has held endowed chairs at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Memphis, is a former Communication Department chair at Boston College, and has been a professor at Ashland University as well as guest professor at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Since leaving the practice of full-time daily journalism, he has covered numerous stories, including the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. This is his tenth book on journalism and the news media.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780275994969 |
| ISBN 10 | 0275994961 |
| Title | The Media Effect |
| Author | Jim Willis |
| Series | Democracy And The News |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2007-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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