Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press

by Michael Schudson

Book Overview

Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This question is at the heart of this book by world renowned sociologist and media scholar Michael Schudson.

Focusing on the U.S. media but seeing them in a comparative context, Schudson brings his understanding of news as at once a story-telling and fact-centered practice to bear on a variety of controversies about what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745644538
• ISBN13: 9780745644530
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"