Deciding what's news : a study of CBS evening news, NBC nightly news, Newsweek, and Time / Herbert J. Gans.
- Title
- Deciding what's news : a study of CBS evening news, NBC nightly news, Newsweek, and Time / Herbert J. Gans.
- Published by
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2004.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xxvii, 393 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Herbert J. Gans is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University."--Jacket.
- Series statement
- Visions of the American press
- Uniform title
- Visions of the American press.
- Subject
- Contents
- 1. Nation and society in the news -- 2. Values in the news -- 3. The organization of story selection -- 4. Sources and journalists -- 5. Story suitability -- 6. Objectivity, values, and ideology -- 7. Profits and audiences -- 8. Pressures, censorship, and self-censorship -- 9. Conclusions : the news and the journalists -- 10. Multiperspectival news.
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Random House, 1979.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-375) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain