Overview

Journalism is an essential part of the democratic process. It is simultaneously a profit-making business, a form of entertainment, and a political institution with complex ties to the state and to other powerful political actors. We Keep America on Top of the World brings together Daniel Hallli's most recent work on American journalism, with particular emphasis on its most influential and controversial component - television news. We Keep America on Top of the World explores the tensions produced by the multiple roles which exist within broadcast journalism. Hallin approaches the study of broadcast news from many angles - comparative, historical, cultural and political-economic. His discussion encompasses explorations of many of the most central and controversial issues in the study of journalism: the wars in Vietnam and Central America, US-Soviet, the origin of the ten-second sound bite, the difference between print and television journalism, the blurring line between news and entertainment, 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.

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Author:   Daniel Hallin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780415091435

ISBN 10:   0415091438
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   04 November 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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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Daniel C.Hallin is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of ‘The Uncensored War’: The Media and Vietnam, and of many articles on journalism and politics.

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