Common Knowledge: News and the Construction of Political Meaning

by W. Russell Neuman, Marion R. Just, Ann N. Crigler

Book Overview

Photo opportunities, ten-second sound bites, talking heads and celebrity anchors: so the world is explained daily to millions of Americans. The result, according to the experts, is an ignorant public, helpless targets of a one-way flow of carefully filtered and orchestrated communication. Common Knowledge shatters this pervasive myth. Reporting on a ground-breaking study, the authors reveal that our shared knowledge and evolving political beliefs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226574407
• ISBN13: 9780226574400
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"