Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies

by Theodore Glasser, Denis McQuail, Robert A. White, et al.

Book Overview

In this book, five leading scholars of media and communication take on the difficult but important task of explicating the role of journalism in democratic societies. Using Fred S. Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm's classic Four Theories of the Press as their point of departure, the authors explore the philosophical underpinnings and the political realities that inform a normative approach to questions about the relationship between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252034236
• ISBN13: 9780252034237
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"