TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gutsche,Robert E.
TI  - Media control: news as an institution of power and social control 
SN  - 9781628922967
U1  - 302.230973 22
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Press and politics
KW  - Social control
KW  - COMSCI
KW  - November2016
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -