Description:Taking on today's brave new world of political reporting, "Politics on Demand: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American PoliticS" examines how the technological changes and financial imperatives of the American media have led to an entertainment-driven news system that cannot meet the needs of a democracy.Free of partisan slant and easily accessible to all readers, "Politics on Demand" explains the evolving media system, showing how politicians use the media to sell themselves and how the media uses politicians to its own advantage. The book demonstrates that, with vast amounts of programming time to fill, the spotlight has shifted away from substantive information to opinion, which, in turn, has helped perpetuate partisan politics. Politicians now have to contort themselves to fit within media confines, and political discourse has become extreme and over-simplified. Combining insider interviews with facts, statistics, anecdotes, and analysis, the author, herself a former C-SPAN producer, argues that the American media has become harmful for our nation and a detriment to our political system.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Politics on Demand: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American Politics: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American Politics. To get started finding Politics on Demand: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American Politics: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American Politics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
145
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Praeger
Release
2010
ISBN
1282535560
Politics on Demand: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American Politics: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American Politics
Description: Taking on today's brave new world of political reporting, "Politics on Demand: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American PoliticS" examines how the technological changes and financial imperatives of the American media have led to an entertainment-driven news system that cannot meet the needs of a democracy.Free of partisan slant and easily accessible to all readers, "Politics on Demand" explains the evolving media system, showing how politicians use the media to sell themselves and how the media uses politicians to its own advantage. The book demonstrates that, with vast amounts of programming time to fill, the spotlight has shifted away from substantive information to opinion, which, in turn, has helped perpetuate partisan politics. Politicians now have to contort themselves to fit within media confines, and political discourse has become extreme and over-simplified. Combining insider interviews with facts, statistics, anecdotes, and analysis, the author, herself a former C-SPAN producer, argues that the American media has become harmful for our nation and a detriment to our political system.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Politics on Demand: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American Politics: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American Politics. To get started finding Politics on Demand: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American Politics: The Effects of 24-Hour News on American Politics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.