Scandal and sex sell, even in the serious business of presidential news coverage. The media deference shown to Kennedy and the scrutiny applied to Clinton illustrate the changed relation between the two, and bookend this pertinent, updated 1998 Choice Outstanding Academic Book award-winner. Liebovich tackles misconceptions about the media's role in politics; how chief executives cooperate with and manipulate the press as it suits their needs; and how ratings pressures have bent coverage of elections and the Executive Branch for the worse. Well-written, thorough, and the only book to explore the changing relation between the press and the presidency in the later twentieth century, students and researchers alike will profit from reading this work written by one of America's leading scholars in the field. For students interested in communications, history, or contemporary American politics, it is an unparalleled administration-by-administration introduction to the complex and intertwined workings of two of the most powerful and influential forces at work in American politics today. It furthermore provides researchers with a solid historical explanation of how both presidential politics and political news coverage have come to be popularly reviled and discounted.
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For students interested in communications, history, or contemporary American politics, it is an unparalleled administration-by-administration introduction to the complex and intertwined workings of two of the most powerful and influential forces at work in American politics today.
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Prologue The 1960s: Tragedy and Transition Myths of the 1960 Election Kennedy and the Resurgent Presidency Lyndon Johnson's Frustrations The Press, The Presidency, and Vietnam The 1970s: The Death of Pax Americana Watergate as a Media Barometer Mr. Ford's Double-Edged Sword Jimmy Carter's Master Plan The 1980s: Mortgaging the Future The Great Non-Communicator Media's Changing Role at the White House The 1990s: Starting Over George Bush and Other Fables Bill Clinton's Bad Image The 1994 and 1996 Elections Monica Lewinsky Election 2000: The Day the Earth Stood Still Epilogue Selected Bibliography Index
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OAB award-winning account of contentious press-presidential relations from JFK to GWB, updated to include Clinton's scandals and the 2000 election.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780275974046
Publisert
2001-06-30
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Praeger Publishers Inc
Vekt
425 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296

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Biographical note

LOUIS W. LIEBOVICH is Professor of Journalism at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Professor Liebovich has also written The Press and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944-1947 (1988, Praeger) and Bylines of Despair: Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression, and the U.S. News Media (1994, Praeger).