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Author:

Gutsche, Robert E., 1980-

Title:

Media control : news as an institution of power and social control / Robert E. Gutsche, Jr.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academic,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

383 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Mass media--History--United States--History--20th century.
Mass media--History--United States--History--21st century.
Journalism--History--United States--History--20th century.
Journalism--History--United States--History--21st century.
Press and politics--United States.
Social control--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical referecens and index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Making News: Purposes, Practices & Pandering -- Chapter 2 - Press as Paternal Authority: Veiling Power via 'The Fourth Estate' -- Chapter 3 - Controversies, Conspiracies & Confusion: News as Cultural Distraction -- Chapter 4 - Normalizing Surveillance & Control: How the Press Contribute to Policing -- Chapter 5 - The Myth of Media Literacy & Why Americans Will Never Have It -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"A critical approach to the cultural function of news media, arguing that news is an institution that performs a function of social control under the guise of the Fourth Estate"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1501320130
9781501320132 (softcover)
1628922966
9781628922967

LCCN:

2015015866

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)