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How Australia decides : election reporting and the media

Title
How Australia decides : election reporting and the media / Sally Young.
ISBN
9780521147071 (pbk.)
0521147077 (pbk.)
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xxii, 323 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
In recent years, the Australian media have come under fire for their reporting of politics and election campaigns. Political reporting is said to be too influenced by commercial concerns, too obsessed with gossip and scandal, and too focused on trivia and 'sound bites' at the expense of serious issues.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 16, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-307) and index.
Contents
Election reporting in the 2000s
pt. 1. Political news audiences and outlets. The political news audience
The elite public sphere
The popular public sphere
Elections and audiences
pt. 2. Where does election news come from and what is it about? Creating election news: journalists
The stars of the show: politicians and campaigning
Who controls the news agenda?
'From the campaign trail': the framing of election news
pt. 3. Elections in mediated times. News, political reporting and the internet
Bias
News, the public and democracy.
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