The press
This second volume in the series Institutions of American Democracy takes a close look at the role of the press in a democracy through a collection of essays by journalists and scholars. The essays examine the orientation of the press in a democracy, the function of the press in democracies, the government and the press, the structure and nature of the American press, and the future of news and journalism. The collection is aimed at correcting mistaken impressions about American media, inside and outside of the U.S., that mainstream conventional journalism is the only "legitimate" journalism; that journalism as practiced currently in the U.S. is the only valid model; and that American journalism is not affected by journalistic trends and developments in other nations. The essayists consider the role of the press as watchdog in a democracy, the importance of advocacy journalism in protecting the rights of minorities, alternative models for news delivery, the growing trend toward profit-oriented media monopolies, and the function of the press in wartime
Aufsatzsammlung
xxvi, 473 pages ; 25 cm.
9780195172836, 9780195309140, 0195172833, 0195309146
57342021
DIRECTORY OF CONTRIBUTORS ; GENERAL INTRODUCTION: The Press as an Institution of American Constitutional Democracy ; INTRODUCTION ; SECTION I: ORIENTATIONS: THE PRESS AND DEMOCRACY IN TIME AND SPACE ; 1. Presses and Democracies ; 2. American Journalism in Historical Perspective ; 3. The Nature and Sources of News ; 4. Definitions of Journalism ; 5. The Minority Press: Pleading Our Own Cause ; 6. Journalism and Democracy across Borders ; SECTION II: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE PRESS IN A DEMOCRACY ; 7. What Democracy Requires of the Media ; 8. The Marketplace of Ideas ; 9. The Agenda-Setting Function of the Press ; 10. The Watchdog Role ; 11. Informing the Public ; 12. Mobilizing Citizen Participation ; SECTION III: GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESS: AN AMBIVALENT RELATIONSHIP ; 13. Government and the Press: Issues and Trends ; 14. Public Policy toward the Press: What Government Does For the News Media ; 15. The First Amendment Tradition and Its Critics ; 16. Legal Evolution of the Government-News Media Relationship ; 17. Communications Regulation in Protecting the Public Interest ; 18. Journalism and the Public Interest ; 19. The Military and the Media ; SECTION IV: STRUCTURE AND NATURE OF THE AMERICAN PRESS ; 20. Money, Media, and the Public Interest ; 21. The Market and the Media ; 22. The Press and the Politics of Representation ; 23. The Legacy of Autonomy in American Journalism ; 24. What Kind of Journalism Does the Public Need? ; SECTION V ; AFTERWORD ; INDEX