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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. News in a Changing Information System
• Why Journalism Matters
• Can the News Be Fixed?
• The Citizen Gap: Who Follows the News?
• Governing with the News
• Politicians and the Media: A Symbiotic Relationship
• Getting Spun: Indexing the News to Political Power
• case study: Political Comedy Reveals the “Truthiness” about News
• What about the People?
• A Definition of News
• The Fragile Link between News and Democracy
• 2. News Stories: Four Information Biases That Matter
• Putting Journalistic Bias in Perspective
• A Different Kind of Bias
• Four Information Biases That Matter: An Overview
• Four Information Biases in the News: An In-Depth Look
• case study: Who Controls the News Narrative?
• Bias and the US Political Information System
• Reform Anyone?
• 3. Citizens and the News: Public Opinion and Information Processing
• News and the Battle for Public Opinion
• Chasing Its Own Tale: How News Formulas Shape Opinion
• The Public in the News Drama
• Selling the Iraq War
• Reaching Inattentive Publics
• case study: National Attention Deficit Disorder?
• Processing the News
• News and Public Opinion: The Citizen’s Dilemma
• Publics in the Digital Age
• 4. How Politicians Make the News
• Are Social Media Replacing the Role of the Press?
• The Politics of Old-Fashioned PR
• case study: How Global Warming Became a Partisan News Story
• Press Politics: Feeding the Beast
• News as Strategic Political Communication
• The Symbolic Uses of Politics
• Symbolic Politics and Strategic Communication
• Why the Press Is So Easily Spun
• Controlling the Situation: From Pseudo-events to Damage Control
• Playing Hardball: The Intimidation of Whistleblowers and Reporters
• Government and the Politics of Newsmaking
• 5. How Journalists Report the News
• How Spin Works
• Journalistic Routines and Professional Norms
• Reporters as a Pack: Pressures to Agree
• The Paradox of Organizational Routines
• The End of Gatekeeping and the Challenges of Change
• The Rise of the New Investigative Journalism
• case study: Hacktivist Journalism: The New Investigative Reporting in the Digital Age
• Democracy with or without Citizens?
• 6. Inside the Profession: The Objectivity Crisis
• The Professional Vocabulary of Objectivity, Fairness, Balance, and Truth
• The Curious Origins of Objective Journalism
• Putting Professional Norms into Practice
• case study: False Balance in the News
• Objectivity Reconsidered
• Journalism and the Crisis of Credibility
• 7. The Political Economy of News
• case study: Adapt or Die: The Future of News in Native Digital Media
• The Legacy Media Try to Hold On
• Ownership Deregulation and the End of Social Responsibility Standards
• The Media Monopoly: Four Decades of Change
• Big Business versus the Public Interest
• The Citizen Movement for Media Reform
• Technology, Economics, and Democracy
• 8. The Future of News in a Time of Change
• Information Technology and Citizenship: Isolation or Deliberation?
• Whither the Public Sphere?
• Three American Myths about Freedom of the Press
• News and Power in America: Myth versus Reality
• Why the Free Press Myth Persists
• Proposals for Citizens, Journalists, and Politicians
• Time for a Public Discussion about the Role of the Press
• case study: Innovation and Change in News Formats
• In Closing: How to Fight the Information Overload
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index