Politics and the Media investigates how the news media—from print newspapers to blogs and political action websites—shape the political process and are, in turn, shaped by it.

Politics and the Media

vol. 10, no. 2 (Summer 2008)

Introduction

News and Democratic Society: Past, Present, and Future

Michael Schudson

Photo-Op Politics

Kiku Adatto

Thirty-Second Democracy: Campaign Advertising and American Elections

Paul Freedman

Do the News Media Starve the Civic IQ? Squaring Impressions and Facts

Doris A. Graber

The Negative Effect: News, Politics, and the Public

Thomas E. Patterson

Journalism: Looking Backward, Going Forward

Robert W. McChesney

Interview with E. J. Dionne, Jr.

Reviews:

Donald Dewey’s The Art of Ill Will

J. G. Lewin and P. J. Huff’s Lines of Contention

Jody C. Baumgartner and Jonathan S. Morris’s Laughing Matters

Mamoun Fandy’s (Un)Civil War of Words

Bibliographic Review of Critical Texts on Politics and the Media

Listing of Recent Relevant Releases

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