Deciding What's News A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time

Name: Deciding What's News A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time
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ISBN: 9780810122376

ISBN-10: 0810122375

ISBN-13: 9780810122376

Edition: 25th 2005 (Anniversary)

Authors: Herbert J. Gans

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For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform America about itself. Writing during the golden age of journalism, Gans included such headline events as the War on Poverty, the Vietnam War and the protests against it, urban ghetto disorders, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and Watergate. He was interested in the values, professional standards, and the external pressures that shaped journalists' judgments. Deciding What's News has become a classic. A new preface outlines the major changes that have taken place…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 25th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 2/22/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




Nation and society in the news



Values in the news



The organization of story selection



Sources and journalists



Story suitability



Objectivity, values, and ideology



Profits and audiences



Pressures, censorship, and self-censorship



Conclusions : the news and the journalists



Multiperspectival news