Press and Democratic Backsliding - How Journalism Has Failed the Public and How It Can Revive Democracy

This edited volume argues that journalists and other political communicators have allowed antidemocratic movements in the United States and elsewhere to metastasize within the body politic. It not only seeks to identify and explain these press failures but to recommend new ways forward.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Thomas J. Johnson is Amon G. Carter Jr. Centennial Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the digital media research program.
Aaron S. Veenstra is associate professor and multimedia journalism area coordinator in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University.

Zusammenfassung

This edited volume argues that journalists and other political communicators have allowed antidemocratic movements in the United States and elsewhere to metastasize within the body politic. It not only seeks to identify and explain these press failures but to recommend new ways forward.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thomas J Veenstra Johnson, Thomas J. Veenstra Johnson
• Mitarbeit: Thomas J Johnson (Herausgeber), Thomas J. Johnson (Herausgeber), Johnson Thomas J. (Herausgeber), Aaron S Veenstra (Herausgeber), Aaron S. Veenstra (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.04.2024
• EAN: 9781666957495
• ISBN: 978-1-66695-749-5
• Seiten: 338
• Serie: Lexington Studies in Political Communication
• Themen: Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Gesellschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Allgemeines, Lexika; USA, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, United States of America, USA