This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American
journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment
on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews
with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of
newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s, Rodney Benson
shows how the immigration debate has become increasingly focused on
the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of humanitarianism and public
order. In both countries, less commercialized media tend to offer the
most in-depth, multi-perspective and critical news. Benson challenges
classic liberalism's assumptions about state intervention's chilling
effects on the press, suggests costs as well as benefits to the
current vogue in personalized narrative news, and calls attention to
journalistic practices that can help empower civil society. This book
offers new theories and methods for sociologists and media scholars
and fresh insights for journalists, policy makers and concerned
citizens.
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ISBN
9781107241039
Publisert
2013
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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