Description: Journalism and Democracy : An Evaluation of the Political Public Sphere, Paperback by McNair, Brian, ISBN 0415212804, ISBN-13 9780415212809, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The public sphere is said to be in crisis. Dumbing down, tabloidisation, infotainment and spin are alleged to contaminate it, adversely affecting the quality of political journalism and of democracy itself. There is a pervasive pessimism about the relationship between the media and democracy, and widespread concern for the future of the political process. Journalism and Democracy challenges this orthodoxy, arguing instead for an alternative, more optimistic evaluation of the contemporary public sphere and its contribution to the political process. Brian McNair argues not only that the quantity of political information in mass circulation has expanded hugely in the late twentieth century, but that political journalism has become steadily more rigorous and effective in its criticism of elites, more accessible to the public, and more thorough in its coverage of the political process. Journalism and Democracy combines textual analysis and extensive in-depth interviews with political journalists, editors, presenters and documentary makers. In separate chapters devoted to the political news agenda, the political interview, punditry, public access media and spin doctoring, McNair considers whether dumbing down is a genuinely new trend in political journalism, or a kind of moral panic, provoked by suspicion of mass involvement in culture.
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Book Title: Journalism and Democracy : An Evaluation of the Political Public
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Journalism and Democracy : an Evaluation of the Political Public Sphere
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Media Studies, Public Affairs & Administration, Journalism, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2000
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Brian Mcnair
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
