The Politics of News: The News of Politics

Identifying the three major stakeholders concerned with political news to be the news producers, government and politicians, and the public, Graber (U. of Illinois at Chicago, US), McQuail (U. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), and Norris (Harvard U., US) present 12 papers that examine issues of political reporting from each of theses perspectives and from an overall contextual perspective. They include discussion of political journalist perceptions in the advanced industrial democracies; changing journalist roles in Russia; guidelines for journalism professionals as formulated by the American public television journalist Jim Lehrer; news management by government executives in the US, Germany, and Britain; public relations experts' manipulation of journalists; media exposure of deceptive political advertisements; voter reception of political advertisements; shifting levels of public attention to political news; the incompatibility of the citizenship and profit missions of the media; the role of audience interest in determining the nature of political news; and the global impacts of technological developments. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)