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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| The News About Democracy: An Introduction to Governing the American Political System | |
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| What Happened to Politics? | |
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| Governing with the News | |
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| How the News Went to War | |
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| What About Evidence? An Uncomfortable Truth About Journalism | |
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| Case Study: The "Truthiness" About News | |
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| News and Democracy: From the Pony Express to the Web | |
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| Gatekeeping: Who and What Make the News | |
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| Politicians, Press, and the People | |
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| A Definition of News | |
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| Consumer-Driven Democracy: A New Gatekeeping? | |
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| Soft News and the Turn Away from Politics | |
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| The First Amendment: Why Free Speech Does Not Guarantee Good Information | |
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| What the First Amendment Is Protecting and the FCC Is Licensing | |
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| What Kind of News Would Better Serve Democracy? | |
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| The Fragile Link Between News and Democracy | |
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| Notes | |
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| News Content: Four Information Biases That Matter | |
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| Putting Journalistic Bias in Perspective | |
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| What's Wrong with Press Bias and Political Partisanship? | |
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| A Different Kind of Bias | |
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| Four Information Biases That Matter: An Overview | |
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| Case Study: How George W. Bush Got His Swagger | |
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| Four Information Biases in the News: An In-Depth Look | |
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| Bias as Part of the Political Information System | |
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| News Bias and Discouraged Citizens | |
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| Reform Anyone? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Citizens and the News: Public Opinion and Information Processing | |
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| News and the Battle for Public Opinion | |
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| Reaching Publics with News Images | |
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| Selling the Iraq War | |
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| News and Public Opinion: The Citizen's Dilemma | |
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| Case Study: National Attention Deficit Disorder? | |
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| Processing the News | |
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| News Frames and Politicial Learning | |
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| Entertainment and Other Reasons People Follow the News | |
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| Citizens, Information, and Politics | |
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| Notes | |
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| How Politicians Make the News | |
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| Case Study: How Global Warming Became a Partisan News Story | |
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| The Politics of Illusion | |
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| The Sources of Political News | |
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| News Images as Strategic Political Communication | |
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| News Bias and Press-Government Relations | |
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| The Goals of Strategic Political Communication | |
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| Symbolic Politics and the Techniques of Image Making | |
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| News Management: The Basics | |
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| News Management Styles and the Modern Presidency | |
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| Press Relations: Feeding the Beast | |
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| Government and the Politics of Newsmaking | |
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| Notes | |
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| How Journalists Report the News | |
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| Work Routines and Professional Norms | |
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| When Routines Produce High-Quality Reporting | |
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| Case Study: Top Ten Reasons the Press Took a Pass on the Iraq War | |
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| How Reporting Practices Contribute to News Bias | |
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| Reporters and Officials: Cooperation and Control | |
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| Reporters as Members of News Organizations: Pressures to Standardize | |
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| Reporters as a Pack: Pressures to Agree | |
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| The Paradox of Organizational Routines | |
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| When Journalism Works | |
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| Democracy With or Without Citizens? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Inside the Profession: Objectivity and the Political Authority Bias | |
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| Journalists and Their Profession | |
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| The Paradox of Objective Reporting | |
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| Defining Objectivity: Fairness, Balance, and Truth | |
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| The Curious Origins of Objective Journalism | |
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| Professional Journalism in Practice | |
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| Objectivity Reconsidered | |
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| Case Study: Why Mainstream Professional Journalism Favors Spin over Truth | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Political Economy of News | |
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| Profits and News Bias | |
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| The Economic Transformation of the American Media | |
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| Corporate Profit Logic and News Content | |
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| The Political Economy of News | |
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| Economics Versus Democracy: Inside the News Business | |
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| The Media Monopoly: Arguments For and Against | |
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| Case Study: Ownership Deregulation and the Citizen's Movement for Social Responsibility in Broadcast Standards | |
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| Effects of the Media Monopoly: Five Information Trends | |
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| How Does Corporate Influence Operate? | |
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| News on the Internet: Perfecting the Commercialization of Information? | |
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| Commercialized Information and Citizen Confidence | |
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| Megatrends: Technology, Economics, and Social Change | |
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| Notes | |
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| All the News That Fits Democracy: Solutions for Citizens, Politicians, and Journalists | |
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| The Isolated Citizen | |
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| The Deliberative Citizen | |
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| Personalized Information and the Future of Democracy | |
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| Whither the Public Sphere? | |
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| The News About Corporate Ownership in the Media System | |
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| The News About Public Broadcasting | |
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| The News About Objective Journalism | |
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| News and Power in America: Ideal Versus Reality | |
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| Why the Myth of a Free Press Persists | |
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| Proposals for Citizens, Journalists, and Politicians | |
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| Case Study: Citizen Input-From Interactive News to Desktop Democracy | |
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| The Promise and Peril of Virtual Democracy | |
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| Balancing Democracy and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Place to Start | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |