Message Control: How News Is Made on the Presidential Campaign Trail

by Elizabeth A. Skewes

Message Control, a look at what shapes the news from the presidential campaign trail, comes out of the author's experience traveling with campaigns, interviews with other journalists who have covered campaigns from the road, and research on campaign news. Elizabeth Skewes, a journalism professor and former reporter, investigates journalists' beliefs and the role those beliefs play in the election process, as well as how the routines of campaign...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742554619
• ISBN13: 9780742554610
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"