Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters / / Jonathan M. Ladd.
As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evaporated. Why has confidence in the press declined so dramatically over the past 40 years? And has this change shaped the public's political...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1 halftone. 30 line illus. 14 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Why Is Everyone Mad at the Mainstream Media?
- 2. Political Conflict with the Press in the Pre-Polling Era
- 3. The Emergence of the Institutional News Media in an Era of Decreasing Political Polarization
- 4. The Institutional News Media in an Era of Political Polarization and Media Fragmentation
- 5. Sources of Antipathy toward the News Media
- 6. News Media Trust and Political Learning
- 7. News Media Trust and Voting
- 8. The News Media in a Democracy
- References
- Index