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How Australia decides : election reporting and the media / Sally Young.
Van Pelt Library P95.82.A8 Y68 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Sally Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Political aspects--Australia.
- Mass media.
- Political campaigns--Australia.
- Political campaigns.
- Mass media--Political aspects.
- Australia--Politics and government--1945-.
- Australia.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- In recent years, the Australian media have come under fire for their reporting of politics and election campaigns. Political reporting is said to be too influenced by commercial concerns, too obsessed with gossip and scandal, and too focused on trivia and 'sound bites' at the expense of serious issues.
- Contents:
- Election reporting in the 2000s
- pt. 1. Political news audiences and outlets. The political news audience
- The elite public sphere
- The popular public sphere
- Elections and audiences
- pt. 2. Where does election news come from and what is it about? Creating election news: journalists
- The stars of the show: politicians and campaigning
- Who controls the news agenda?
- 'From the campaign trail': the framing of election news
- pt. 3. Elections in mediated times. News, political reporting and the internet
- Bias
- News, the public and democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-307) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521147071
- 0521147077
- OCLC:
- 690442159
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