TY  - BOOK
AU  - Entman,Robert M.
AU  - Entman Robert M.
TI  - Scandal and silence :media responses to presidential misconduct
SN  - 9780745647623
AV  - P96.E58 2012 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Scandals in mass media
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Scandals
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - United States
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - History
KW  - Sexual behavior
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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