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Scandal and silence : media responses to presidential misconduct / Robert M. Entman.
- Title
- Scandal and silence : media responses to presidential misconduct / Robert M. Entman.
- Author
- Entman, Robert M.
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | P96.S29 E58 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 269 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The author argues that "media neglect most corruption, providing too little, not too much scandal coverage; scandals arise from rational, controlled processes, not emotional frenzies -- and when scandals happen, it's not the media but government and political parties that drive the process and any excesses that might occur; significant scandals are difficult for news organizations to initiate and harder for them to maintain and bring to appropriate closure; for these reasons cover-ups and lying often work, and truth remains essentially unrecorded, unremembered."--Back cover
- Series Statement
- Contemporary political communication
- Uniform Title
- Contemporary political communication
- Alternative Title
- Media responses to presidential misconduct
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-255) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- High crimes or misdemeanors? -- Analyzing media and presidential scandal -- Private lives in the public sphere : what do journalists know, and when do they tell it? -- Secret sins of 2008 : the McCain, Edwards and Clinton families' values -- Dodging scandals-and the draft -- Rathergate : from a scandal of politics to a scandal of journalism -- Harkening to other matters : what news looks like when a scandal is silenced -- Silenced scandals of grave misconduct -- Recalibrating scandal and silence.
- ISBN
- 9780745647623 (hbk.)
- 0745647626 (hbk.)
- 9780745647630 (pbk.)
- 0745647634 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2011534094
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library