Combining the best of social science research on political communication with the expertise of some of America′s leading journalists and political consultants, this book brings together perspectives of academics, reporters, commentators, campaign consultants and policy makers on the media and North American politics.

The Brave New World of Media Politics - Richard Reeves PART ONE: REPORTERS, REPORTING AND THE BUSINESS OF NEWS Overview - Richard Reeves The Socialization of Reporters - Lou Cannon The American Journalist in the 1990s - David H Weaver and G Cleveland Wilhoit Covering the OJ Trial - Bill Boyarsky Show and Tell - Rita Braver Reporters Meet Politicians on Larry King Live Oliver Stone and History - Richard Reeves Combat Stories - Richard Cohen et al Sound-Bite News - Daniel C Hallin Television Coverage of Elections The US Media - Ben Bagdikian Supermarket or Assembly Line? Three Blind Mice - Ken Auletta Raiding the Global Village - Ken Auletta The Business of Television News - Jeff Greenfield PART TWO: REPORTERS AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS: WHO USES WHOM? Overview - Richard Reeves Cracking the News Code - W Lance Bennett Some Rules That Journalists Live By Press Theory and Journalistic Practice - William A Dorman The Case of the Gulf War Lying - Benjamin Bradlee The Theodore H White Lecture at Harvard University Who Uses Whom? - Daniel Schoor The Theodore H White Lecture at Harvard University PART THREE: MEDIA-BASED POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS Overview - Shanto Iyengar Are Media Campaigns Effective? - Larry Bartels et al Shifting Perspectives on the Effects of Campaign Communication - Stephen Ansolabehere, Shanto Iyengar and Adam Simon The Media - Kim F Kahn and Edie N Goldenberg Obstacle or Ally of Feminists? Women as Political Candidates - Celinda Lake, Linda DiVall and Shanto Iyengar Was 1992 the Year of the Woman? Voter Learning in the 1992 Presidential Campaign - Samuel L Popkin Campaigning and the Press - John R Petrocik The Influence of the Candidates Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate? - Stephen Ansolabehere et al PART FOUR: THE EFFECTS OF NEWS ON THE AUDIENCE: MINIMAL OR MAXIMAL CONSEQUENCES Overview - Shanto Iyengar Political Knowledge in Comparative Perspective - Michael D Dimock and Samuel L Popkin A Paradigmatic History of Agenda-Setting Research - Everett M Rogers, William B Hart and James W Dearing The News Media and the Pictures in Our Heads - Maxwell McCombs and George Estrada News Coverage of the Gulf Crisis and Public Opinion - Shanto Iyengar and Adam Simon A Study of Agenda-Setting, Priming, and Framing The Anatomy of News Media Priming - Joanne M Miller and Jon A Krosnick Framing Responsibility for Political Issues - Shanto Iyengar The Case of Poverty Modern Racism and Images of Blacks in Local Television News - Robert M Entman Crime in Black and White - Franklin Gilliam et al The Violent, Scary World of Local News A Model of Communication Effects at the Outbreak of the Gulf War - John R Zaller PART FIVE: THE USE OF MEDIA IN THE POLICY PROCESS Overview - Shanto Iyengar The Theory and Practice of Going Public - Sam Kernell Going Public in Undemocratic Polities - Richard Anderson Media Attention and Congressional Agendas - Frank R Baumgartner, Bryan D Jones and Beth L Leech Press Briefing by Press Secretary - Mike McCurry October 12 1995 Remarks by President Bill Clinton at the Second Americorps Swearing-In Ceremony October 12 1995 Going Less Public - Jarol B Manheim Managing Images to Influence US Foreign Policy Putting Media Effects Research to Work - Michael Pertschuk Lessons for Community Groups Who Would Be Heard Talking Back, Ernie Pyle Style - Susan Bales Framing the Framers - Vincent Schiraldi and Dan Maccalair Changing the Debate over Juvenile Crime in San Francisco Advocate′s Guide to Developing Framing Memos - Liana Winett