{"product_id":"media-and-public-policy-9780275943035","title":"Media and Public Policy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical scientists and media specialists accept the commonplace assumption that the mass media have a profound and direct impact on virtually every aspect of the political process, yet remarkably few systematic studies examining the relationship between media and policy exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Defining the Media-Policy Link by Robert J. Spitzer  Theoretical Perspectives  Media Impact on the Political Status Quo--What is the Evidence? by Doris A. Graber  Newsmaking and Policymaking: Steps Toward a Dialogue by Julio Borquez  Media and Domestic Policy  Impact of Commissioner Background on FCC Decisions , 1975-1990 by Wenmouth Williams, Jr.  Bringing the Distant Close: Learning About South Africa From the News by Marion Just and Ann Crigler  The Media, Economic Development, and Agenda Setting by Michael R. Hawthorne  The Media, the Right to Privacy and Judicial Policy-Making: Rethinking Conceptual Foundations by Dean E. Alger  Media Images as Environmental Policy by Jerry F. Medler and Michael J. Medler  The Advertising Driven \"New\" Mass Media Election and the Rhetoric of Policy Issues: The 1990 Gantt-Helms Senate Race by Montague Kern  Media and Comparative-Foreign Policy Dimensions  Credentialing Experts: The Climate of Opinion and Journalist Selection of Sources in Domestic and Foreign Policy by Robert Sahr  AIDS Reporting in the United States and Britain: What Reporters Know and What They Think the Public Knows by Holli A. Semetko and Edie N. Goldenberg  Mass Media and U.S. Foreign Policy: A Mutual Exploitation Model of Media Influence in U.S. Foreign Policy by Patrick O'Heffernan  Bibliography  Index","brand":"ABC-CLIO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017735635287,"sku":"9780275943035","price":86.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/media-and-public-policy-9780275943035","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}