Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press - Softcover

Schudson, Pro Michael

 
9780745644530: Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0745644538 ISBN 13: 9780745644530
Verlag: Polity, 2008

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Lively, provocative, unconventional, and deeply informed by a rich understanding of journalism's history, this work collects the best of Schudson's recent writings, including several pieces published here for the first time.

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Michael Schudson is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, and Professor of Communication at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University.

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Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This question is at the heart of this book by world renowned sociologist and media scholar Michael Schudson.

Focusing on the U.S. media but seeing them in a comparative context, Schudson brings his understanding of news as at once a story-telling and fact-centered practice to bear on a variety of controversies about what public knowledge today is and what it should be. Should experts have a role in governing democracies? Is news melodramatic or is it ironic – or is it both at different times?

In the title essay, Schudson even suggests that journalism serves the interests of free expression and democracy best when it least lives up to the demands of media critics for deep thought and analysis; passion for the sensational event may be news at its democratically most powerful.

Lively, provocative, unconventional, and deeply informed by a rich understanding of journalism’s history, this work collects the best of Schudson’s recent writings, including several pieces published here for the first time.

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0745644538
ISBN 13 
9780745644530
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
156
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