| Description |
xiii, 359 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Media, class, and power : debunking the myth of a classless society / Deepa Kumar -- Choosing sources : how the press perpetrated the myth of the single mother on welfare / Janet Blank-Libra -- Poor people in the news : images from the journalistic subconscious / Martin Gilens -- Picturing class : mining the field of front-page photographs for keys to accidental communities of memory / Julianne H. Newton ... [et al.] -- Class and local TV news / Don Heider, Koji Fuse -- Social stratification potential of tabloid and highbrow newsmagazine programs / Maria Elizabeth Grabe -- Constructing a televisual class : newsmagazines and social class / Jennie Phillips -- Calling class : sports announcers and the culture of poverty / James Rada, K. Tim Wulfemeyer -- "America is a middle-class nation" : the presentation of class in the pages of Life / Sheila Webb -- Tales told in two cities : when missing girls are(n't) news / Carol Liebler -- "Trailer park trash" : news, ideology, and depictions of the American underclass / Joseph Harry -- Emergence of class consciousness in the American newspaper guild / Bonnie Brennen -- Writing the workers' World Trade Center : an analysis of reportage on Ground Zero in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 / Laura Hapke -- UPS strike coverage and the future of labor in corporate news / Christopher R. Martin -- Good news from a bad neighborhood : urban journalism and community assets / James S. Ettema, Limor Peer -- Class and media influence in Australia / Paul Jones, Michael Pusey -- Television civic journalism and the portrayal of class / David D. Kurpius. |
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Poor -- Public opinion.
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Public welfare -- Public opinion.
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Social classes -- United States.
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Social classes -- United States.
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Social classes -- Press coverage -- United States.
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Television broadcasting of news -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Journalism -- Social aspects -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Heider, Don (Donald Bruce)
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| ISBN |
0742527131 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0742527123 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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