Scandal and silence :media responses to presidential misconduct /
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| Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riara University Library General stack | P96.E58 2012 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 7958/16 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-255) and index.
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.
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
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