Scandal and silence : media responses to presidential misconduct
Robert M. Entman (Author)
The author argues that "media neglect most corruption, providing too little, not too much scandal coverage; scandals arise from rational, controlled processes, not emotional frenzies -- and when scandals happen, it's not the media but government and political parties that drive the process and any excesses that might occur; significant scandals are difficult for news organizations to initiate and harder for them to maintain and bring to appropriate closure; for these reasons cover-ups and lying often work, and truth remains essentially unrecorded, unremembered."--Back cover
History
1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations
9780745675800, 9780745660523, 9781299534681, 0745675808, 0745660525, 1299534686
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High crimes or misdemeanors?
Analyzing media and presidential scandal
Private lives in the public sphere : what do journalists know, and when do they tell it?
Secret sins of 2008 : the McCain, Edwards and Clinton families' values
Dodging scandals-and the draft
Rathergate : from a scandal of politics to a scandal of journalism
Harkening to other matters : what news looks like when a scandal is silenced
Silenced scandals of grave misconduct
Recalibrating scandal and silence