Votes That Count and Voters Who Don't: How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It)

By Sharon E. Jarvis and Soo-Hye Han

Book Overview

Examines how journalists have portrayed electoral participation in the United States. The authors analyze depictions of voters in print news coverage over the course of eighteen presidential elections (1948-2016), describe people's reactions to those depictions, and share insights from their interviews with more than fifty elite journalists.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271081252
• ISBN13: 9780271081250
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"