Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy

by Jimmie L. Reeves and Richard Campbell

Book Overview

Carefully documenting the deceptions and excesses of television news coverage of the so-called cocaine epidemic, Cracked Coverage stands as a bold indictment of the backlash politics of the Reagan coalition and its implicit racism, the mercenary outlook of the drug control establishment, and the enterprising reporting of crusading journalism. Blending theoretical and empirical analyses, Jimmie L. Reeves and Richard Campbell explore how TV news not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822314916
• ISBN13: 9780822314912
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"