Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison

by Rodney Benson

Book Overview

This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s, Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of humanitarianism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521715679
• ISBN13: 9780521715676
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"