5 BOOKS ON MEDIA AND POLITICS MEDIATED NEWS THAT MATTERS POWER TO PERSUADE

Lot of five (5) Media and Politics Books

 

1.  Live, Direct and Biased?  Making Television News in the Satellite Age by Brent MacGregor

8vo size hardcover; 234 pages. 

From back cover:  "A study of the changing face of TV news, this book examines both the transmitted screen product and the newsgathering process.  It is an analysis of how television reporting has changed in the age of rolling news."

Bumped and worn corners and head and heel of spine.  Edgewear to top corners.  We note a red stripe on outside pages. 

 

2.   Mediated Politics:  Communication in the Future of Democracy

Edited by W. Lance Bennett and Robert M. Entman

8vo size trade paperback; 489 pages. 

From back:  "(The editors) have solicited an eclectic group of provocative readings on the relationship between media and democracy in our altered media environment characterized by the emergence and increasing dominance of new and increasingly sophisticated technologies. - Elliot E. Slotnick, Ohio State University"

In five parts:

1. Democracy and the Public Sphere
2. Citizens, Consumers and Media in Transition
3. Mediated Political Information and Public Opinion
4. Mediated Campaigns
5. Citizens:  Present and Future

Edgewear; crease to top corner, smudge on outside pages.  There are notes on the last (blank) page and penciled underlining or brackets on at least 25 pages.  There are textural changes on the top corner of the pages consistent with water damage, however, we see no evidence of that.

 

3.  News That Matters:  Television and American Opinion by Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder

8vo size trade paperback; 187 pages. 

From back:  "Because of its extraordinary reach and imposing credibility, TV news possesses the power to mold the public's political agenda...(this book identifies) the ways in which television news programs order priorities and shape opinion, affecting the way many Americans take part in political life."

Light wear to covers.

 

4.  Power to Persuade:  Mass Media and the News by Robert Cirino

 12mo size mass market paperback; 246 toned pages. 

 From back cover:  "(This book) presents over 150 fascinating, fully documented case studies in media decision making at all levels."

Contents include: 

• Is Objectivity Possible?
• Censorship
• In The Advertisers Interest
• Balancing the Marketplace. 

One of the case studies discusses the censorship of Pete Seeger's song The Big Muddy which was censored from the Smothers Brothers television show.  Questions for discussion are included.

Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out.  Covers have been laminated.

 

5.  Processing Politics:  Learning from Television in the Internet Age by Doris. A. Graber

8vo size trade paperback; 231 bright, clean pages. 

From back:  "How often do we hear that Americans are so ignorant about politics that their civic competence is impaired, and that the media are to blame because they do a dismal job of informing the public?  (This book) shows that average Americans are far more competent that the critics believe.  Integrating a broad range of current research on how people learn...(the author) shows that televised presentations at their best actually excel at transmitting information and facilitating learning."

Edgewear and light crease on front cover.

 

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