We keep America on top of the world : television journalism and the public sphere
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We keep America on top of the world : television journalism and the public sphere
（Communication and society）
Routledge, 1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
We Keep America on Top of the World is a lucid exploration of contemporary American journalism, with particular emphasis on its influential and controversial conponent - television news. Daniel Hallin's discussion encompasses the central and most controversial issues in the study of journalism: the wars in Vietnam and Central America; US-Soviet summits; the origin of the ten-second soundbite; the differences between print and television journalism; and the tension between professionalism and populism.
We Keep America on Top of the World offers a distinctive approach to understanding an institution torn between the imperatives of the market, political ideology and popular fashion, and journalistic professionalism. It will be essential reading for students of media, communication and journalism.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The American news media
- Chapter 3 The media, the war in Vietnam, and polltical support
- Chapter 4 From Vietnam to El Salvador
- Chapter 5 'We Keep America on Top of the World'
- Chapter 6 Speaking of the president
- Chapter 7 Soundbite news
- Chapter 8 Summits and the constitution of an international public sphere
- Chapter 9 The passing of the 'high modernism' of American journalism
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