1st Edition
Journalism and Democracy An Evaluation of the Political Public Sphere
By Brian McNair
Copyright 2000
224 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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The public sphere is said to be in crisis. Dumbing down, tabloidisation, infotainment and spin are alleged to contaminate it, adversely affecting the quality of political journalism and of democracy itself. There is a pervasive pessimism about the relationship between the media and democracy, and widespread concern for the future of the political process. Journalism and Democracy challenges this... Read more
Chapter 1 Journalism and Democracy; Chapter 2 The Political Public Sphere; Chapter 3 Policy, Process, Performance and Sleaze; Chapter 4 The Interpretative Moment; Chapter 5 The Interrogative Moment; Chapter 6 The Sound of the Crowd; Chapter 7 ‘Spin, Whores, Spin’; Chapter 8 The Media and Politics, 1992–97; Chapter 9 Political Journalism and the Crisis of Mass Representation;
Biography
Brian McNair is Reader in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Stirling University and a member of the Stirling Media Research Institute. He is the author of News and Journalism in the UK (3rd edition, 1999), An Introduction to Political Communication (2nd edition, 1999) and The Sociology of Journalism (1998).
