Marvin Kalb. (2001). One scandalous story. New York: The Free press. Veteran journalist Marvin Kalb puts the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal into context of political reporting over the last 40 years.
Herbert Gans. (1979). Deciding what's news. New York: Pantheon Books. Gans analyzes the content of multiple news outlets to find what he calls the eight enduring values of the American press.
ed. Shanto Iyengar and Richard Reeves. (1997). Do the media govern? Politicians, voters, and reporters in America. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. An excellent anthology covering a wide range of issues related to the relationship between politics and the media.
Jeff Greenfield. (2001). "Oh, waiter! One order of crow!". New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. The CNN political commentator discusses how journalists misreported the unique presidential election of 2000.
