All the News That's Fit to Sell : : How the Market Transforms Information into News / / James T. Hamilton.

That market forces drive the news is not news. Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors' products. But in All the News That's Fit to Sell, economist James...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2003
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 8 line illus. 70 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Economic Theories of News
  • Chapter 2. A Market for Press Independence: The Evolution of Nonpartisan Newspapers in the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 3. News Audiences: How Strong Are the Public's Interests in the Public Interest?
  • Chapter 4. Information Programs on Network Television
  • Chapter 5. What Is News on Local Television Stations and in Local Newspapers
  • Chapter 6. The Changing Nature of the Network Evening News Programs
  • Chapter 7. News on the Net
  • Chapter 8. Journalists as Goods
  • Chapter 9. Content, Consequences, and Policy Choices
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index