Thanks to the ready availability of political news today, informed citizens can protect and promote their own interests and the public interest more effectively. Or can they? Murray Edelman argues against this conventional interpretation of politics, one that takes for granted that we live in a world of facts and that people react rationally to the facts they know. In doing so, he explores in detail the ways in which the conspicuous aspects of the political scene are interpretations that systematically buttress established inequalities and interpretations already dominant political ideologies.

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Why liberals and conservatives create such different media (with Danna Young)

Books recommended:

• 📕  Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics (Politics and Culture in Modern America) by Nicole Hemmer
• 📘  Constructing the Political Spectacle by Murray Edelman
• 📗  The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) by Jeffrey M. Berry, Sarah Sobieraj
• 📙  Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young

June 20, 2019 4 books recommended

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