Scandal and silence : media responses to presidential misconduct /

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...

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Main Author: Entman, Robert M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2012.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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