The American Democracy, 10th Edition (Patterson)Chapter 10:
The News Media: Communicating Political ImagesChapter Outline
- Historical Development: From the Nation's Founding to Today
- The Objective-Journalism Era
- The Rise of the "New" News
- The Organizational Edge: Economic Groups vs. Citizens' Groups
- The Politics of News
- The Signaling Function
- A Common Version of Reality
- Informing the Public, or Attracting an Audience?
- The Common-Carrier Function
- The Watchdog Function
- The Partisan Function
- Traditional Media: Mostly Neutral
- Talk Shows: Mostly Conservative
- The Internet: Mostly Liberal
- Attention to News
- The Shrinking Audience for News
- Age and Attention to News
- Media and Public in the Internet Age
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