The American Journalist in the 1990s

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The American Journalist in the 1990s
U.S. News People at the End ofan Era
This book presents findings from the most comprehensive and representative study ever done of the demographic and educational backgrounds, working conditions, and professional and ethical values of U.S. print and broadcast journalists working in the 1990s, including separate analyses for women and minority news people. It compares many of these findings with those from the major studies of the early 1970s and 1980s. As such, it should be the standard reference on U.S. journalists for years to come.
"Questions of news média bias have become so politicized and sensationalized that we need this kind of clear-eyed social science to anchor the discussion. This portrait of who journalists are and what they think provides a solid empirical foundation for further média sociology, in think tank or academy, regardless of perspective."
— Stephen D. Reese, University of Texas at Austin
"This elegant mapping of what... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The American Journalist in the 1990s
U.S. News People at the End ofan Era
This book presents findings from the most comprehensive and representative study ever done of the demographic and educational backgrounds, working conditions, and professional and ethical values of U.S. print and broadcast journalists working in the 1990s, including separate analyses for women and minority news people. It compares many of these findings with those from the major studies of the early 1970s and 1980s. As such, it should be the standard reference on U.S. journalists for years to come.
"Questions of news média bias have become so politicized and sensationalized that we need this kind of clear-eyed social science to anchor the discussion. This portrait of who journalists are and what they think provides a solid empirical foundation for further média sociology, in think tank or academy, regardless of perspective."
— Stephen D. Reese, University of Texas at Austin
"This elegant mapping of what has happened to mainstream journalists over the past decade raises a very serious question. Does the rising level of unhappiness among the ranks forecast a deterioration of quality in the news product on which we depend? The corporate world, the profession, indeed all citizens, need take note, worry, and seek solutions."
— Stephen Hess, The Brookings Institution
"We are in an era of sea changes in the média industries, when news people with different characteristics and values from those of the past are emerging to create the new journalistic jungle Studies like this give us hope that we can once again learn more about the people who take part in the increasingly impersonal manufacturing process we call journalism."
— Everette E. Dennis, The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center
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