Media control : news as an institution of power and social control / Robert E. Gutsche.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.Description: x, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781628922967
- Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Press and politics -- United States
- Social control -- United States
- Informatics and Computer Science November2016
- 302.230973 22 GUT
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Index : p. [363]-383.
Glosssary : p. [363]-365.
Includes bibliographical referecens.
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.
"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"--
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