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Informationen zum Autor Brian McNair is Reader in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Stirling University and a member of the Stirling Media Research Institute. He is the author of News and Journalism in the UK (3rd edition, 1999), An Introduction to Political Communication (2nd edition, 1999) and The Sociology of Journalism (1998). Klappentext "Journalism and Democracy" explores and challenges the commonly held view that the "dumbing down" of the public sphere, the "tabloidization" of news, and the proliferation of "infotainment" and "spin" are adversely affecting the quality of political journalism and of democracy itself. Combining textual analysis and extensive in-depth interviews with political journalists, editors, presenters and documentary makers, Brian McNair offers a more optimistic evaluation of the contemporary public sphere. He argues that the quantity of political information in mass circulation has expanded hugely in the late twentieth century, and that it has become steadily more rigorous and effective in its criticism of elites, more accessible to the public, and more thorough in its coverage of the political process. Zusammenfassung Argues that the media are not `dumbing down', but that the quantity of political information in mass circulation has expanded hugely, while different media have adapted to provide accessible and thorough coverage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Journalism and Democracy; Chapter 2 The Political Public Sphere; Chapter 3 Policy, Process, Performance and Sleaze; Chapter 4 The Interpretative Moment; Chapter 5 The Interrogative Moment; Chapter 6 The Sound of the Crowd; Chapter 7 ‘Spin, Whores, Spin’; Chapter 8 The Media and Politics, 1992–97; Chapter 9 Political Journalism and the Crisis of Mass Representation;
