Scandal and silence : media responses to presidential misconduct / Robert M. Entman.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, c2012Description: 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780745647623 (cl.); 9780745647630 (pbk.) :Other title: Media responses to presidential misconductSubject(s): Scandals in mass media | Mass media -- Political aspects | Scandals -- Press coverage -- United States | Presidents -- Press coverage -- United States | Presidents -- Corrupt practices -- United States -- History | Presidents -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History | Scandals -- United States| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 書 | 世新大學圖書館 三樓西文圖書區 | 圖書 | 364.13230973 En 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | E127425 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-255) and index.
High crimes or misdemeanors? -- Analyzing media and presidential scandal -- Private lives in the public sphere : what do journalists know, and when do they tell it? -- Secret sins of 2008 : the McCain, Edwards and Clinton families' values -- Dodging scandals--and the draft -- Rathergate : from a scandal of politics to a scandal of journalism -- Harkening to other matters : what news looks like when a scandal is silenced -- Silenced scandals of grave misconduct -- Recalibrating scandal and silence.
The author argues that "media neglect most corruption, providing too little, not too much scandal coverage; scandals arise from rational, controlled processes, not emotional frenzies -- and when scandals happen, it's not the media but government and political parties that drive the process and any excesses that might occur; significant scandals are difficult for news organizations to initiate and harder for them to maintain and bring to appropriate closure; for these reasons cover-ups and lying often work, and truth remains essentially unrecorded, unremembered."--Back cover
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