ABSTRACT

News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.

chapter 1|10 pages

News as Communication

chapter 2|27 pages

Reading the News

chapter 3|25 pages

News and Society

chapter 4|12 pages

Those Who Threaten Disorder

chapter 5|12 pages

Selection and Construction

chapter 6|20 pages

Hail Fellow Well Met

chapter 7|23 pages

A Winter of Discontent

chapter 8|8 pages

Producing the News: For Ourselves

chapter 9|16 pages

Consuming Interest