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News and news sources : a critical introduction / Paul Manning.

By: Manning, Paul, 1955-Publisher: London : SAGE, 2001Description: xi, 251 p.; 24cm001: 13846ISBN: 0761957979; 9780761957973; 0761957960; 9780761957966Subject(s): Reporters and reporting | Attribution of news | Journalistic ethicsDDC classification: 302.23
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News and News Sources offers a fresh introduction to the sociology of news.

News and News Sources: reviews new research in the rapidly expanding field of political communication, drawing upon material from Britain, Europe and the USA; provides a clear introduction to the processes of news production and the implications of the rise in global electronic news communication; and assesses the various theoretical frameworks available for analysing these developments including fuctionalism, pluralism, Marxism, political economy, hegemony theory, discourse theory and postmodernism.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-245) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Why Worry about the Sources of News
  • Theorizing News Media and News Sources
  • Journalists and News Production
  • Proprietors, Corporations and Politicians
  • Political Elites, the State and Categories of Knowledge
  • Considering the Powerful and Politically Marginal
  • News Media Politics and the Politically Marginal
  • News Audiences and News Sources

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