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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459244303321

Autore

Davis Richard <1955->

Titolo

Justices and journalists : the U.S. Supreme Court and the media / / Richard Davis [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-21889-6

1-283-05538-4

9786613055385

0-511-97748-4

0-511-86021-8

0-511-86108-7

0-511-85847-7

0-511-85760-8

0-511-85934-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

347.73/2634

Soggetti

Law in mass media

Mass media - Law and legislation - United States

Judges - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

External strategies -- The pressure to go public -- The early years -- The nineteenth century -- The twentieth century -- Becoming newsworthy -- The twenty-first century and the future.

Sommario/riassunto

Justices and Journalists examines whether justices are becoming more publicity-conscious and why that might be happening. The book discusses the motives of justices 'going public' and details their recent increased number of television and print interviews and amount of press coverage of their speeches. The book describes the interactions justices have with the journalists who cover them. These interactions typically are not discussed publicly by justices or journalists. The book explains why justices care about press and public relations, how they employ external strategies to affect press portrayals of themselves and



their institution, and how and why journalists participate in that interaction. Drawing on the papers of Supreme Court justices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book examines these interactions over the history of the Court. It includes a content analysis of print and broadcast media coverage of Supreme Court justices covering a 40-year period from 1968 to 2007.