Publication

1995 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

67,250 words, Guess

Page Count

269 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1510484
  • Goodreads4728889

Classifications

  • DDC070.1/95
  • LCCPN4888.T4 S38 1995

Description

Some say it's simply information, mirroring the world. Others believe it's propaganda, promoting a partisan view. But news, Michael Schudson tells us, is really both and neither; it is a form of culture, complete with its own literary and social conventions and powerful in ways far more subtle and complex than its many critics might suspect. A penetrating look into this culture, The Power of News offers a compelling view of the news media's emergence as a central institution of modern society, a key repository of common knowledge and cultural authority.

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Other Editions

  • The power of newsHarvard University Press1995-01-01

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