News: The Politics of Illusion* NEW! Four broad new themes that have redefined both the news business and news audiences in recent years are woven throughout the new edition: the decline of mass media and the fragmentation of the mass news audience; the rise of strategic communication and new technologies of audience targeting; the rise of news negativity; and the news reform movement. * NEW! An expanded, more comprehensive Chapter 1 replaces the introduction of the previous edition. The new Chapter 1 gives students a better introduction to the books organization and approach. * NEW! Thoroughly updated information on new technologies helps students better comprehend the dizzying changes occurring in the communication environment and how they are affecting the news business and news audiences. * NEW! Access to authors own website where students can find lists of web links provides students with resources so they can explore topics in greater depth. http: //faculty.washington.edu/bennett/ * Case Studies: These analyses focus on particular events to help students apply concepts to examples from real life. * Quotations from famous politicians and writers: These quotations engage student interest at the beginning o |
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... Nixon during his darkest days of the Watergate crisis . Un- derstanding the requirements of symbolic composition , Nixon chose a setting , an audience , and a set of carefully prepared messages designed to convey the impres- sions that ...
... Nixon during his darkest days of the Watergate crisis . Un- derstanding the requirements of symbolic composition , Nixon chose a setting , an audience , and a set of carefully prepared messages designed to convey the impres- sions that ...
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... Nixon to shape public reaction to a disastrous oil spill in the Santa Bar- bara Channel in 1969. Nixon intervened in the situation when the environmental is- sues were embraced by a volatile antigovernment student movement . Nixon's ...
... Nixon to shape public reaction to a disastrous oil spill in the Santa Bar- bara Channel in 1969. Nixon intervened in the situation when the environmental is- sues were embraced by a volatile antigovernment student movement . Nixon's ...
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... Nixon completed the pseudo - event by conducting an inspection tour of a sparkling clean Santa Barbara beach . This tour would have been less convincing had he ( or the press ) announced that the chosen stretch of beach had been cleaned ...
... Nixon completed the pseudo - event by conducting an inspection tour of a sparkling clean Santa Barbara beach . This tour would have been less convincing had he ( or the press ) announced that the chosen stretch of beach had been cleaned ...
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