Why democracies need an unlovable press /
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: facts and democracy
- Six or seven things news can do for democracy
- The US model of journalism: exception or exemplar?
- The invention of the American newspaper as popular art, 1890-1930
- Why democracies need an unlovable press
- The concept of politics in contemporary US journalism
- What's unusual about covering politics as usual
- The anarchy of events and the anxiety of story telling
- Why conversation is not the soul of democracy
- The trouble with experts, and why democracies need them.