Transparency, Public Relations and the Mass Media: Combating the Hidden Influences in News Coverage Worldwide

by Katerina Tsetsura and Dean Kruckeberg

Book Overview

This book is about media transparency and good-faith attempts of honesty by both the sources and the gate-keepers of news and other information that the mass media present as being unbiased. Specifically, this book provides a theoretical framework for understanding media transparency and its antithesis--media opacity--by analyzing extensive empirical data that the authors have collected from more than 60 countries throughout the world. The practice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415884241
• ISBN13: 9780415884242
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"