Primetime Pundits - How Cable News Covers Social Issues

Informationen zum Autor By Lynn Letukas Klappentext Primetime Pundits explores the ascent of punditry and offers a new approach for understanding how social issues are covered in the changing media landscape. Based on extensive research of primetime news coverage of social issues, Letukas analyzes how pundits have come to dominate our national political dialogue over the past thirty years. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: What is a Pundit?Chapter 2: The Ascent of PunditryChapter 3: The Era of Infotainment: The Rise of Television Punditry and Sound Bite NewsChapter 4: Constructing the NewsChapter 5: Packaging Pundit Claims about Social IssuesChapter 6: How Primetime Pundits Politicize NewsChapter 7: Justifying Day Two: How Cable News Sustains a StoryChapter 8: A Model for Partisan NewsAppendix A: MethodologyAppendix B: Case Studies

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Letukas, Letukas Lynn
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2014
• EAN: 9780739187524
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8752-4
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Communication Studies, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society