Scandal and Silence: Media Responses to Presidential Misconduct
This engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that media crave and actively pursue scandals whenever they sense corruption. Scandal and Silence argues for a different perspective and shows that:
- Media neglect most corruption, providing too little, not too much scandal coverage;
- Scandals arise from rational, controlled processes, not emotional frenzies - and when scandals happen, it’s not the media but governments and political parties that drive the process and any excesses that might occur;
- Significant scandals are indeed difficult for news organizations to initiate and harder for them to maintain and bring to appropriate closure;
- For these reasons cover-ups and lying often work, and truth remains essentially unrecorded, unremembered.
Using case studies from the period 1988-2008, the book builds a new understanding of media scandals which will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the relationship between media and democracy today.
- Media neglect most corruption, providing too little, not too much scandal coverage;
- Scandals arise from rational, controlled processes, not emotional frenzies - and when scandals happen, it’s not the media but governments and political parties that drive the process and any excesses that might occur;
- Significant scandals are indeed difficult for news organizations to initiate and harder for them to maintain and bring to appropriate closure;
- For these reasons cover-ups and lying often work, and truth remains essentially unrecorded, unremembered.
Using case studies from the period 1988-2008, the book builds a new understanding of media scandals which will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the relationship between media and democracy today.
Entman, Robert M. - Personal Name
364.13230973 ENT s
978-0-7456-4763
364.13230973
Printed Book
Inggris
Polity Press
2012
Cambridge, United Kingdom
269 hlm
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