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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797848903321

Titolo

Assessing evidence in a postmodern world / / edited by Bonnie Brennen ; contributors, Daniel D. Blinka [and thirteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milwaukee, Wisconsin : , : Marquette University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-87462-037-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Diederich Studies in Media and Communication ; ; Number 3

Disciplina

071.3

Soggetti

Journalism - Objectivity - United States

Truth

Mass media - Objectivity - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Assessing Evidence cover""; ""Assessing Evidence half title""; ""Assessing Evidence, edited by Bonnie Brennen, title page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction, by Bonnie Brennen""; ""1. History, Journalism, and the Problem of Truth, by John Nerone""; ""2. Why Journalism Has Always Pushed Perception Alongside Reality, by Barbie Zelizer""; ""3. The Decusuve Moment, by Andrew L. Mendelson""; ""4. ""It's Just a Joke,"" by Margaret Duffy, Janis Teruggi Page, & Rachel Young ""; ""5. Mis/Reading Obama, by Tom Nakayama""

""6. Less Falseness As Antidote to the Anxieties of Postmodernism, by Linda Steiner""""7. Networked News Work, by Jane B. SInger""; ""8. Does the Modern Trial Lack Credibility in a Postmodern World, by Daniel D. Blinka""; ""9. Promises and Challenges of Teaching Statistical Reasoning to Journalism Undergraduates, by Robert J. Griffin & Sharon Dunwoody""; ""10. Media Insurgents in the Network Society, by Frank Durham""; ""Roundtable""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""