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Deciding What´s News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time
Herbert J. Gans
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Paperback. For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform America about itself. Here, a new preface outlines the major changes that have taken place in the news. Series: Visions of the American Press S. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440.
For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform America about itself. Writing during the golden age of journalism. Gans included such headline events as the War on Poverty, the Vietnam War and the protests against it, urban ghetto disorders, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and Watergate. He was interested in the values, professional standards, and the external pressures that shaped journalists' judgments. Deciding What's News has become a classic. A new preface ... Read more
For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform America about itself. Writing during the golden age of journalism. Gans included such headline events as the War on Poverty, the Vietnam War and the protests against it, urban ghetto disorders, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and Watergate. He was interested in the values, professional standards, and the external pressures that shaped journalists' judgments. Deciding What's News has become a classic. A new preface ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Series
Visions of the American Press S.
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810122376
SKU
V9780810122376
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About Herbert J. Gans
Herbert J. Gans is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books including The Urban Villagers (Free Press, 1962), Popular Culture and High Culture (Basic Books, 1999), The Levittowners (Columbia University Press, 1982), and Democracy and the News (Oxford University Press, 2003).
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