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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Assumptions about Media Power | |
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| A Pervasive News Media | |
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| The Impact of News Media on American Politics | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Communications Revolution | |
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| New Technologies | |
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| Effects on the Broadcast Media Industry | |
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| Political Consequences | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Partisanship to Independence | |
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| Early Newspapers | |
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| The Jacksonian Press | |
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| A New Kind of Newspaper: The Penny Press | |
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| Yellow Journalism and Presidential News Making | |
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| Other Major Press Developments | |
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| Presidential News Making | |
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| Fulfilling Journalistic Imperatives | |
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| The New Relationship vs. the Old | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| The Twentieth Century: The Rise of Broadcasting, Media Conglomerates, and the New Journalism | |
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| Early Broadcasting | |
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| Effects of Broadcasting | |
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| Television, New Journalism, and Political Change | |
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| Political Developments | |
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| Political System Dependency and Press Autonomy | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| The Global Perspective | |
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| The Liberal Democracies | |
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| Non-Democracies | |
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| Cultural Hegemony and Global Media | |
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| Dependence on the News Media | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Regulating the Press | |
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| Press Freedom and Democracy | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Who Are the News Media? | |
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| Journalists and Politicians | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| The New Media | |
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| Print Tabloids | |
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| Broadcast Political Talk | |
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| Television: Talk and New News | |
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| Internet | |
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| Political Functions of the Internet | |
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| Future Politics and the Internet | |
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| Electronic Town Meetings | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| News Gathering | |
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| Bias | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| News Making | |
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| Managing the News | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Media Effects on the Interactive Audience | |
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| Mitigating Factors | |
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| Political Socialization and the Media | |
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| Agenda Setting | |
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| Political Efficacy and Participation | |
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| Vote Choices | |
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| Images of Candidates | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Media Electoral Roles | |
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| Electoral Intermediary | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Media-Based Campaigns | |
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| The Candidates | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| The Presidency | |
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| Starring the President | |
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| Managing the News | |
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| Presidential Press Conferences | |
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| Bypassing the Press | |
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| The Press Corps | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| The Congress | |
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| Covering Congress | |
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| Who Gets Covered | |
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| Using the National Media | |
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| Members and the Local Media | |
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| The Congressional Committee | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| The Supreme Court | |
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| The Court and the Public | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| The Bureaucracy | |
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| Why the Agencies Are Invisible | |
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| Making Bureaucratic News | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Interest Groups | |
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| Outside Strategies and the Media | |
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| The Groups as News Sources | |
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| Tactics for Acquiring Earned Media Time | |
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| Money and Media Coverage | |
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| Group Voices and the Democratic Process | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Public Policy | |
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| The Policy Cycle | |
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| Impact on the Policy Process | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Foreign and Defense Policy | |
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| Using the Press to Conduct Foreign Policy | |
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| Effect on Public Opinion | |
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| Covering U.S. Military Actions | |
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| The Problem of Access | |
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| Combat News Coverage | |
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| Secrecy and Censorship | |
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| Effect on Public Support for U.S. Military Role | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Media's Role in American Democracy | |
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| Press Reform | |
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| Political Reform | |
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| A Return to Traditional Intermediaries | |
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| Index | |