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Tilt?: The Search for Media Bias
David Niven
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Description for Tilt?: The Search for Media Bias
Hardback. Nine in ten Americans believe the media are biased. Trust in journalists ranks beneath that in lawyers, and even the media themselves regularly portray their own industry as slanted toward Democrats and liberals. These perceptions, however, do not coincide with reality, as this work reveals. Num Pages: 176 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JPV; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Nine in ten Americans believe the media are biased. Trust in journalists ranks beneath that in lawyers, and even the media themselves regularly portray their own industry as slanted toward Democrats and liberals. These perceptions, however, do not coincide with reality, as David Niven reveals in his bold new take on an often-debated subject. Tilt? The Search for Media Bias presents the first comprehensive review of the charges, the evidence, and the effects, beginning with a simple but altogether overlooked premise: to measure media bias or fairness, one has to have a fair baseline with which to compare coverage. Using ... Read more
Nine in ten Americans believe the media are biased. Trust in journalists ranks beneath that in lawyers, and even the media themselves regularly portray their own industry as slanted toward Democrats and liberals. These perceptions, however, do not coincide with reality, as David Niven reveals in his bold new take on an often-debated subject. Tilt? The Search for Media Bias presents the first comprehensive review of the charges, the evidence, and the effects, beginning with a simple but altogether overlooked premise: to measure media bias or fairness, one has to have a fair baseline with which to compare coverage. Using ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780275975777
SKU
V9780275975777
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About David Niven
DAVID NIVEN is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of The Missing Majority: The Recruitment of Women as State Legislative Candidates (Praeger, 1998) and co-author of Racialized Coverage of Congress: The News in Black and White (Praeger, 2000).
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