Mass Media, Politics and Democracy - Hardcover

" Stylish, readable and packed with telling examples from around the world, Mass Media, Politics and Democracy is wide-ranging in its coverage of different media and genres. In a world obscured by spin, soundbites and multivarious political conflict, John Street is an illuminating and often entertaining guide." -- Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles. " Street expands on rudimentary journalistic techniques and reveals interesting methods used in certain portions of the world in his leisurely book on the nature of political journalism." -- "NationalJournal.com" "Stylish, readable and packed with telling examples from around the world, Mass Media, Politics and Democracy is wide-ranging in its coverage of different media and genres. In a world obscured by spin, soundbites and multivarious political conflict, John Street is an illuminating and often entertaining guide." --Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles. "Street expands on rudimentary journalistic techniques and reveals interesting methods used in certain portions of the world in his leisurely book on the nature of political journalism." --"NationalJournal.com"

"Media Media, Politics and Democracy" provides a broad ranging overview of all aspects of the relationship between the media and politics. Drawing its examples from a range of developed liberal democracies, the book combines an accessible account of the political impact and regulation of the mass media with an assessment of the democratic potential and anti-democratic dangers of new media technologies