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Analyzing the News Research Page
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David A Craig. "The Promise and Peril of Anecdotes in News Coverage: An Ethical Analysis." Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Columbia: Winter 2003.Vol.80, Iss. 4; pg. 802, 16 pgs

Edward Herman.  "The Propaganda Model Revisited."  Monthly Review v48.n3 (July-August 1996): pp115(14). 

Brian L. Ott.   "The Politics of Negotiating Public Tragedy: Media Framing of the Matthew Shepard Murder."  Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Volume 5, Number 3, Fall 2002, pp. 483-505 - Article

Mark Allen Peterson.  "Getting to the Story: Unwriteable Discourse and Interpretive Practice in American Journalism."  Anthropological Quarterly - Volume 74, Number 4, October 2001, pp. 201-211 - Article

Jackie Smith.  "From Protest to Agenda Building: Description Bias in Media Coverage of Protest Events in Washington, D.C."  Social Forces - Volume 79, Number 4, June 2001, pp. 1397-1423

Lisa Stone. "Spin Alley: A Microcosm of Journalism's Struggles." Nieman Reports v 59 i2 Summer 2005
 

Online Research Links: Analyzing the News


Eric Alterman, "The Truth About Bias and the News," Cursor (Introduction to Eric Alter, What Liberal Media? (New York: Basic Books, 2003).

David Croteau, "Examining the "Liberal Media" Claim," Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (www.fair.org), 1998.

Mark Crispin Miller, "What's Wrong with This Picture?," The Nation, January 2002.

David A. Schultz, "The Cultural Contradictions of the American Media," excerpt from Chapter Two, It's Show Time: Media, Politics, and Popular Culture (New York: Peter Lang, 2000).

 
 

 

           

 
 

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