Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. News in a Changing Information System
  • Why Journalism Matters
  • Can the News Be Fixed?
  • The Citizen Gap: Who Follows the News?
  • Governing with the News
  • Politicians and the Media: A Symbiotic Relationship
  • Getting Spun: Indexing the News to Political Power
  • case study: Political Comedy Reveals the “Truthiness” about News
  • What about the People?
  • A Definition of News
  • The Fragile Link between News and Democracy
• 2. News Stories: Four Information Biases That Matter
  • Putting Journalistic Bias in Perspective
  • A Different Kind of Bias
  • Four Information Biases That Matter: An Overview
  • Four Information Biases in the News: An In-Depth Look
  • case study: Who Controls the News Narrative?
  • Bias and the US Political Information System
  • Reform Anyone?
• 3. Citizens and the News: Public Opinion and Information Processing
  • News and the Battle for Public Opinion
  • Chasing Its Own Tale: How News Formulas Shape Opinion
  • The Public in the News Drama
  • Selling the Iraq War
  • Reaching Inattentive Publics
  • case study: National Attention Deficit Disorder?
  • Processing the News
  • News and Public Opinion: The Citizen’s Dilemma
  • Publics in the Digital Age
• 4. How Politicians Make the News
  • Are Social Media Replacing the Role of the Press?
  • The Politics of Old-Fashioned PR
  • case study: How Global Warming Became a Partisan News Story
  • Press Politics: Feeding the Beast
  • News as Strategic Political Communication
  • The Symbolic Uses of Politics
  • Symbolic Politics and Strategic Communication
  • Why the Press Is So Easily Spun
  • Controlling the Situation: From Pseudo-events to Damage Control
  • Playing Hardball: The Intimidation of Whistleblowers and Reporters
  • Government and the Politics of Newsmaking
• 5. How Journalists Report the News
  • How Spin Works
  • Journalistic Routines and Professional Norms
  • Reporters as a Pack: Pressures to Agree
  • The Paradox of Organizational Routines
  • The End of Gatekeeping and the Challenges of Change
  • The Rise of the New Investigative Journalism
  • case study: Hacktivist Journalism: The New Investigative Reporting in the Digital Age
  • Democracy with or without Citizens?
• 6. Inside the Profession: The Objectivity Crisis
  • The Professional Vocabulary of Objectivity, Fairness, Balance, and Truth
  • The Curious Origins of Objective Journalism
  • Putting Professional Norms into Practice
  • case study: False Balance in the News
  • Objectivity Reconsidered
  • Journalism and the Crisis of Credibility
• 7. The Political Economy of News
  • case study: Adapt or Die: The Future of News in Native Digital Media
  • The Legacy Media Try to Hold On
  • Ownership Deregulation and the End of Social Responsibility Standards
  • The Media Monopoly: Four Decades of Change
  • Big Business versus the Public Interest
  • The Citizen Movement for Media Reform
  • Technology, Economics, and Democracy
• 8. The Future of News in a Time of Change
  • Information Technology and Citizenship: Isolation or Deliberation?
  • Whither the Public Sphere?
  • Three American Myths about Freedom of the Press
  • News and Power in America: Myth versus Reality
  • Why the Free Press Myth Persists
  • Proposals for Citizens, Journalists, and Politicians
  • Time for a Public Discussion about the Role of the Press
  • case study: Innovation and Change in News Formats
  • In Closing: How to Fight the Information Overload
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index

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