All the News That's Fit to Sell How the Market Transforms Information into News

Name: All the News That's Fit to Sell How the Market Transforms Information into News
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ISBN: 9780691123677

ISBN-10: 0691123675

ISBN-13: 9780691123677

Edition: 2003

Authors: James T. Hamilton

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That market forces drive the news is not news. Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors' products. But inAll the News That's Fit to Sell, economist James Hamilton shows just how this happens. Furthermore, many complaints about journalism--media bias, soft news, and pundits as celebrities--arise from the impact of this economic logic on news judgments. This is the first book to develop an economic theory of news, analyze evidence across a wide range of media markets on how incentives affect news content, and offer policy conclusions. Media bias, for…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.17" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Economic Theories of News



A Market for Press Independence: The Evolution of Nonpartisan Newspapers in the Nineteenth Century



News Audiences: How Strong Are the Public's Interests in the Public Interest?



Information Programs on Network Television



What Is News on Local Television Stations and in Local Newspapers



The Changing Nature of the Network Evening News Programs



News on the Net



Journalists as Goods



Content, Consequences, and Policy Choices


Notes


Bibliography


Index