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Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States
Jim A. Kuypers
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Description for Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States
Hardback. In Partisan Journalism, Kuypers guides readers on a journey through American journalistic history, focusing on the warring notions of objectivity and partisanship. Series: Communication, Media and Politics. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JPV; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 617.
In Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States Jim A. Kuypers guides readers on a journey through American journalistic history, focusing on the warring notions of objectivity and partisanship. Kuypers shows how the American journalistic tradition grew from partisan roots and, with only a brief period of objectivity in between, has returned to those roots today. The book begins with an overview of newspapers during Colonial times, explaining how those papers openly operated in an expressly partisan way; he then moves through the Jacksonian era's expansion of both the press and its partisan ... Read more
In Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States Jim A. Kuypers guides readers on a journey through American journalistic history, focusing on the warring notions of objectivity and partisanship. Kuypers shows how the American journalistic tradition grew from partisan roots and, with only a brief period of objectivity in between, has returned to those roots today. The book begins with an overview of newspapers during Colonial times, explaining how those papers openly operated in an expressly partisan way; he then moves through the Jacksonian era's expansion of both the press and its partisan ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
306
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Communication, Media and Politics
Condition
New
Weight
631g
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442225930
SKU
V9781442225930
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About Jim A. Kuypers
Jim A. Kuypers is an associate professor of communication at Virginia Tech. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Twentieth Century Roots of Rhetorical Studies, Bush's War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in the Terrorist Age and Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action. He is a former editor for the American Communication Journal. ... Read more
Reviews for Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States
How does one even begin to open a scholarly discussion of news media bias in a landscape that has become so proliferated with bias that it now has its own category, 'partisan journalism'? This is the challenge for educators and students, and Kuypers starts by leading readers through the highly partisan roots of US newspapers' initial popularity surge (in the ... Read more