Scandal and silence : media responses to presidential misconduct / Robert M. Entman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Entman, Robert M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scandals in mass media.

Scandals--United States.

Scandals.

Mass media--Political aspects.

Mass media.

Presidents--Sexual behavior--United States--History.

Presidents.

Scandals--Press coverage--United States.

Press coverage.

Presidents--Sexual behavior.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

269 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2012.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [234]-255) and index.

ISBN:

9780745647630

0745647634

OCLC:

760971096