"This book has the potential to be the most important book on race in the past three decades." —David O. Sears, coauthor of Obama's RaceWinner of the Goldsmith Book Prize from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard UniversityUsing the media, and especially television, as barometers of race relations, Robert Entman and Andrew Rojecki explore but then go beyond the treatment of African Americans on network and ...

"The free press cannot be free," Robert Entman asserts. "Inevitably, it is dependent." In this penetrating critique of American journalism and the political process, Entman identifies a "vicious circle of interdependence" as the key dilemma facing reporters and editors. To become sophisticated citizens, he argues, Americans need high-quality, independent political journalism; yet, to stay in business while producing such journalism, news organizations would need an audience of sophisticate...

This timely and engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that media crave and actively pursue scandals whenever they sense corruption. Scandal and Silence argues for a different perspective. Using case studies from the period 1988-2008, it shows that:Media neglect most corruption, providing too little, not too much scandal coverage;Scandals arise from rational, controlled processes, no...

No longer preoccupied with the East-West divide, contemporary foreign policymakers now have to confront regional conflicts, peace-enforcing and humanitarian missions, and a host of other global problems and issues in areas such as trade, health, and the environment. During the Cold War a widely-shared consensus on national interest and security in the United States and western Europe affected news reporting, public opinion, and foreign policy. But with the end of this Cold War frame of ref...

El ámbito de la Comunicación Política es uno de los que más se ha desarrollado en los últimos años tanto en el mundo académico como fuera de él y ha dado lugar a una gran cantidad de trabajos inscritos en diferentes líneas de investigación. Este libro ofrece una doble perspectiva. Por un lado, propone una serie de reflexiones de primeras figuras académicas internaciones sobre la situación actual de la disciplina y sobre sus retos para el futuro. Por otro lado, presenta amplia panorámica de...