Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time

by Herbert J. Gans

Book Overview

For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform America about itself. Writing during the golden age of journalism, Gans included such headline events as the War on Poverty, the Vietnam War and the protests against it, urban ghetto disorders, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810122375
• ISBN13: 9780810122376
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.7"