We Keep America on Top of the World: Television Journalism and the Public Sphere

by Daniel C. Hallin

Book Overview

We Keep America on Top of the World is a lucid exploration of contemporary American journalism, with particular emphasis on its influential and controversial conponent - television news. Daniel Hallin's discussion encompasses the central and most controversial issues in the study of journalism: the wars in Vietnam and Central America; US-Soviet summits; the origin of the ten-second soundbite; the differences between print and television journalism;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415091438
• ISBN13: 9780415091435
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"