Screen LibraryScandal and silence：media responses to presidential misconduct
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Polity Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK Malden, MA |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Contemporary political communication |
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| Carrier Form: | 269 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780745647623 0745647626 9780745647630 (pb) 0745647634 (pb) |
| Index Number: | G206 |
| CLC: | G206.3 |
| Call Number: | G206.3/E612 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-255) and index. 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. 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 |