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Class and news / edited by Don Heider.
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- Television broadcasting of news--Social aspects.
- Television broadcasting of news.
- Social classes--Press coverage.
- Social stratification.
- United States.
- Social stratification--United States.
- Social classes--Press coverage--United States.
- Television broadcasting of news--Social aspects--United States.
- Journalism--Social aspects--United States.
- Journalism.
- Journalism--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2004]
- Summary:
- Class and News is a multidisciplinary collection of essays examining how the news media treats or neglects this structure in everyday reporting. Are certain stories are chosen for their appeal to the upper or middle classes? Are stories of interest to lower class readers/viewers avoided? How are issues of social order reported or reflected in stories that aren't about class? This in-depth work will be a valuable resource for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the dynamics of class and news in the United States.
- Contents:
- 1 Media, Class, and Power: Debunking the Myth of a Classless Society / Deepa Kumar 6
- Part I Class in Print 23
- 2 Choosing Sources: How the Press Perpetuated the Myth of the Single Mother on Welfare / Janet Blank-Libra 25
- 3 Poor People in the News: Images from the Journalistic Subconscious / Martin Gilens 44
- 4 Picturing Class: Mining the Field of Front-Page Photographs for Keys to Accidental Communities of Memory / Julianne H. Newton, Dennis J. Dunleavy, Chad Okrusch, Gabriela Martinez 61
- Part II Class on Television 85
- 5 Class and Local TV News / Don Heider, Koji Fuse 87
- 6 The Social Stratification Potential of Tabloid and Highbrow Newsmagazine Programs / Maria Elizabeth Grabe 108
- 7 Constructing a Televisual Class: Newsmagazines and Social Class / Jennie Phillips 129
- 8 Calling Class: Sports Announcers and the Culture of Poverty / James A. Rada, K. Tim Wulfemeyer 150
- Part III Constructing Class Groups 165
- 9 "America Is a Middle-Class Nation": The Presentation of Class in the Pages of Life / Sheila M. Webb 167
- 10 Tales Told in Two Cities: When Missing Girls Are(n't) News / Carol M. Liebler 199
- 11 "Trailer Park Trash": News, Ideology, and Depictions of the American Underclass / Joseph C. Harry 213
- Part IV Labor, Workers, and News 231
- 12 The Emergence of Class Consciousness in the American Newspaper Guild / Bonnie Brennen 233
- 13 Writing the Workers' World Trade Center: An Analysis of Reportage on Ground Zero in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001 / Laura Hapke 248
- 14 UPS Strike Coverage and the Future of Labor in Corporate News / Christopher R. Martin 262
- Part V Prospects for Change 281
- 15 Good News from a Bad Neighborhood: Urban Journalism and Community Assets / James S. Ettema, Limor Peer 283
- 16 Class and Media Influence in Australia / Paul Jones, Michael Pusey 305
- 17 Television Civic Journalism and the Portrayal of Class / David D. Kurpius 325.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742527123
- 0742527131
- OCLC:
- 54024021
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