Why Democracies Need an Unlovable PressISBN: 978-0-7456-4452-3
Hardcover
184 pages
November 2008, Polity
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Acknowledgements vi
1 Introduction: facts and democracy 1
2 Six or seven things news can do for democracy 11
3 The US model of journalism: exception or exemplar? 27
4 The invention of the American newspaper as popular art, 1890–1930 40
5 Why democracies need an unlovable press 50
6 The concept of politics in contemporary US journalism 63
7 What’s unusual about covering politics as usual 77
8 The anarchy of events and the anxiety of story telling 88
9 Why conversation is not the soul of democracy 94
10 The trouble with experts – and why democracies need them 108
Notes 126
Index 141
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