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Gutsche, Robert E., 1980-

Media control : news as an institution of power and social control / Robert E. Gutsche. - New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. - x, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Index : p. [363]-383. Glosssary : p. [363]-365.

Includes bibliographical referecens.

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Making News: Purposes, Practices & Pandering -- Chapter 2 - Press as Paternal Authority: Veiling Power via 'The Fourth Estate' -- Chapter 3 - Controversies, Conspiracies & Confusion: News as Cultural Distraction -- Chapter 4 - Normalizing Surveillance & Control: How the Press Contribute to Policing -- Chapter 5 - The Myth of Media Literacy & Why Americans Will Never Have It -- Conclusion.

"A critical approach to the cultural function of news media, arguing that news is an institution that performs a function of social control under the guise of the Fourth Estate"--

ISBN: 9781628922967

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mass media--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Mass media--Political aspects--History--United States--21st century.
Journalism--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Journalism--Political aspects--History--United States--21st century.
Press and politics--United States.
Social control--United States.

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Dewey Class. No.: 302.230973 / GUT