Barry Goldwater, Distrust in Media, and Conservative Identity - The Perception of Liberal Bias in the News

This book explores the perception of liberal news bias by examining conservatives' reactions to coverage of Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign in 1964 and posits that, to maintain social identity, conservatives rejected content from news media outlets that was incongruous with their worldview by deeming it hostile and, by extension, liberal.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Liberal Bias Rebellion
Chapter 1: Battle Lines
Chapter 2: Rebels Rise
Chapter 3: Rebel Pathways
Chapter 4: Rebel Vision
Chapter 5: Rebel Reflection
Chapter 6: Rebel Framing
Conclusion: Rebel Reaction
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Rich Shumate is assistant professor in the School of Media at Western Kentucky University.

Product details

• Authors: Rich Shumate
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781793620781
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-078-1
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Press & journalism, News media & journalism, Communication Studies, Media studies: Journalism