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Book Synopsis
How the routine methods of gathering news, rather than any hidden manipulators, determine the ideological character of the product.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. News and Public Events
    • Assembling a Crime Wave
    • Creating Public Events
    • Studying Newswork
    • The Organization of This Book
    • The Research Setting
    • Purissima’s Press Corps
    • Methodology I: Observations as an Apprentice
    • Methodology II: Observations as a Researcher
  • 2. Exposure to the Newsworld
    • The Beat
    • The Detection of Events
    • Preconditions of Exposure to the Newsworld
    • The Beat Round
    • The Bureaucratic Foundations of News Exposure
  • 3. Seeing News Events
    • The Interpretation of Activities
    • The Uses of Phase Structures
    • Nonevents
  • 4. Grounds for Investigating the News
    • “Fact” and Bureaucratic Accounts
    • Reasons for Believing Bureaucratic Accounts
    • Doubting Bureaucratic Accounts
  • 5. Methods for Investigating and Formulating Stories
    • Irregularities and Missing Information: Filling-in
    • The Perspectival Nature of Events: Fact-by-Triangulation
    • Fact-by-Triangulation as a Framework for News Investigation and Story Formulation
  • 6. The Practice and Politics of Newswork
    • News, Ideology, and Legitimation
    • The Sources of News Ideology
    • The Politics of Newswork
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/05/1980
      ISBN13: 9780292751040, 978-0292751040
      ISBN10: 0292751044

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How the routine methods of gathering news, rather than any hidden manipulators, determine the ideological character of the product.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1. News and Public Events
        • Assembling a Crime Wave
        • Creating Public Events
        • Studying Newswork
        • The Organization of This Book
        • The Research Setting
        • Purissima’s Press Corps
        • Methodology I: Observations as an Apprentice
        • Methodology II: Observations as a Researcher
      • 2. Exposure to the Newsworld
        • The Beat
        • The Detection of Events
        • Preconditions of Exposure to the Newsworld
        • The Beat Round
        • The Bureaucratic Foundations of News Exposure
      • 3. Seeing News Events
        • The Interpretation of Activities
        • The Uses of Phase Structures
        • Nonevents
      • 4. Grounds for Investigating the News
        • “Fact” and Bureaucratic Accounts
        • Reasons for Believing Bureaucratic Accounts
        • Doubting Bureaucratic Accounts
      • 5. Methods for Investigating and Formulating Stories
        • Irregularities and Missing Information: Filling-in
        • The Perspectival Nature of Events: Fact-by-Triangulation
        • Fact-by-Triangulation as a Framework for News Investigation and Story Formulation
      • 6. The Practice and Politics of Newswork
        • News, Ideology, and Legitimation
        • The Sources of News Ideology
        • The Politics of Newswork
      • Notes
      • References
      • Index

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