Williams, Bruce Alan.

After broadcast news : media regimes, democracy, and the new information environment / Bruce A. Williams, Michael X. Delli Carpini. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - xii, 361 p. : 23 cm. - Communication, society, and politics .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Is there a difference between Tina Fey and Katie Couric?: policing the boundaries between news and entertainment -- Media regimes and American democracy -- And that's the way it (was): the rise and fall of the age of broadcast news -- Political reality, political power and political relevance in the changing media environment -- Politics in the emerging new media age: hyperreality, multiaxiality, and 'the Clinton scandals' -- When the media really matter: coverage of the environment in a changing media environment -- 9/11 and its aftermath: constructing a political spectacle in the new media environment -- Shaping a new media. regime.

9781107010314 (hbk.) 9780521279833 (pbk.)


Mass media--Political aspects--United States.
Broadcast journalism--Political aspects--United States.
Press and politics--United States.
Popular culture--Political aspects--United States.
Democracy--United States.

071.3 / WIL 2011