For ten years, Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose most of the news stories that inform America about itself. He was interested in their values, professional standards, and the external pressures that shaped their judgments. This fascinating study of the unwritten rules of American journalism provides rare insight into how our society words and how our perceptions of it are formed.

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Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I.

Books recommended:

• 📕  Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Harvey C. Mansfield, Delba Winthrop
• 📘  Deciding what's news: A study of CBS evening news, NBC nightly news, Newsweek, and Time by Herbert J. Gans
• 📗  Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States by Albert O. Hirschman
• 📙  Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy by Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Y. Nanetti

Oct. 18, 2018 4 books recommended

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