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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808252203321

Autore

Gutsche Robert E. <1980->

Titolo

Media control : news as an institution of power and social control / / Robert E. Gutsche, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015

ISBN

1-5013-0476-3

1-62892-294-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Disciplina

302.23/0973

Soggetti

Journalism - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Journalism - Political aspects - United States - History - 21st century

Mass media - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Mass media - Political aspects - United States - History - 21st century

Press and politics - United States

Social control - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical referecens and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Making News: Purposes, Practices & Pandering -- Chapter 2 - Press as Paternal Authority: Veiling Power via 'The Fourth Estate' -- Chapter 3 - Controversies, Conspiracies & Confusion: News as Cultural Distraction -- Chapter 4 - Normalizing Surveillance & Control: How the Press Contribute to Policing -- Chapter 5 - The Myth of Media Literacy & Why Americans Will Never Have It -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"A critical approach to the cultural function of news media, arguing that news is an institution that performs a function of social control under the guise of the Fourth Estate."--