Awards

• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2014
• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2014.
• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Titles 2014

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Author:   Jim A. Kuypers ,  Larry Schweikart
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781442252073

ISBN 10:   1442252073
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   17 June 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Rise of a Partisan Press: News was not always “News” Chapter 2. Profits, Partisanship, and a War: The “Revolution in Journalism” Chapter 3. A Golden Age of Objective Journalism? Chapter 4. Three Presidents and a War Chapter 5. Beyond Nixon: Growth of the Partisan Press Chapter 6. Pushing Their Polls Chapter 7. The Rise of the Alternate News Media in Radio and Internet Chapter 8. Journalistic Values and Biased Reporting Chapter 9. The Clinton Manipulation and a Declining Press Chapter 10. Bush and Election 2000: We Spin, You Figure It Out Chapter 11. Obama 2008 and the Contemporary Establishment News Media Chapter 12. The 2010 and 2012 Elections

Reviews

How does one even begin to open a scholarly discussion of news media bias in a landscape that has become so proliferated with bias that it now has its own category, 'partisan journalism'? This is the challenge for educators and students, and Kuypers starts by leading readers through the highly partisan roots of US newspapers' initial popularity surge (in the 1820s). He shows how the party presses of the medium's nascent days were not unlike Fox News or MSNBC today. (Objectivity, one learns, arose from scientific empiricism and good business: a practical, inoffensive way to serve large, diverse audiences.) Kuypers's clearheaded, highly insightful, and deeply researched volume takes the reader through all the ages of US journalism--through wars, presidents, and the ebb and flow of various media platforms. He even devotes a full chapter to the rise of alternative media. Partisan Journalism, which culminates with a chapter titled 'The 2010 and 2012 Elections,' is an extremely valuable and highly readable resource. Kuypers's examination is thorough, historically potent, and enlightening. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. CHOICE In Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States, Jim Kuypers has written one of those rare books that is designed to actually stimulate thought among scholars, news professionals and the news reading/viewing (and now tweeting and blogging) public. His analysis of the origins, rise, variations and modern incarnations of the partisan press is both scrupulously detailed and wittily pointed. More than just a history or a critique, Kuypers explains and contextualizes events, ideas and people who shaped our modern media world. The book will-I hope-incite controversy and counter-argument and thus spur a renewed debate on what constitutes a free and fair press in a representative republic. -- David D. Perlmutter, Dean and Professor of the College of Media & Communication, Texas Tech University, and author of Blogwars: The New Political Battleground

Author Information

Jim A. Kuypers is an associate professor of communication at Virginia Tech. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Twentieth Century Roots of Rhetorical Studies, Bush’s War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in the Terrorist Age and Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action. He is a former editor for the American Communication Journal. He is the recipient of the American Communication Association’s Outstanding Contribution to Communication Scholarship Award, the Southern States Communication Association’s Early Career Research Award, and Dartmouth College’s Distinguished Lecturer Award. His research interests include meta-criticism, the moral/poetic use of language, and political communication, particularly ways that the news media influence political understanding

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