Local Media Coverage of Congress and Its Members - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Local Media Coverage of Congress and Its Members write by Danielle Vinson. This book was released on 2003. Local Media Coverage of Congress and Its Members available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It can be explained to varying degrees by three sets of factors - market-district congruence, characteristics of different types of media, and member-media relations."--BOOK JACKET.
Local Media Coverage of Congress and Its Members
Local Media Coverage of Congress and Its Members - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Local Media Coverage of Congress and Its Members write by C. Danielle Vinson. This book was released on 1996. Local Media Coverage of Congress and Its Members available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability
Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability write by R. Douglas Arnold. This book was released on 2013-10-31. Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability is the first large-scale examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress. Douglas Arnold asks: do local newspapers provide the information citizens need in order to hold representatives accountable for their actions in office? In contrast with previous studies, which largely focused on the campaign period, he tests various hypotheses about the causes and consequences of media coverage by exploring coverage during an entire congressional session. Using three samples of local newspapers from across the country, Arnold analyzes all coverage over a two-year period--every news story, editorial, opinion column, letter, and list. First he investigates how twenty-five newspapers covered twenty-five local representatives; and next, how competing newspapers in six cities covered their corresponding legislators. Examination of an even larger sample, sixty-seven newspapers and 187 representatives, shows why some newspapers cover legislators more thoroughly than do other papers. Arnold then links the coverage data with a large public opinion survey to show that the volume of coverage affects citizens' awareness of representatives and challengers. The results show enormous variation in coverage. Some newspapers cover legislators frequently, thoroughly, and accessibly. Others--some of them famous for their national coverage--largely ignore local representatives. The analysis also confirms that only those incumbents or challengers in the most competitive races, and those who command huge sums of money, receive extensive coverage.
Racialized Coverage of Congress
Racialized Coverage of Congress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Racialized Coverage of Congress write by Jeremy Zilber. This book was released on 2000-06-30. Racialized Coverage of Congress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This examination of the causes, severity, and implications of racially stereotyped media coverage of Congress incorporates original analysis of congressional media coverage and interviews with congressional press staff. The news media often portray African-American members as being primarily interested in race, overly concerned with local matters, and wielding little legislative influence. By contrast, the images African-American members attempt to project of themselves are more complex and comprehensive than the images the media communicate. The authors offer a psychological explanation for this phenomenon, the Distribution Effect, in which those who are numerically rare in an occupation tend to be lumped together rather than treated as individuals. Their findings suggest that it is the media, rather than members of Congress, who are responsible for the racialized images that appear regularly in the press. This results in an advantage for white incumbents trying to attract votes but presents an obstacle to be overcome for African-American politicians. This study will appeal to political science, media studies, and racial studies scholars. It incorporates content analysis of the newest forum of communication, congressional Internet web sites, to disclose how white and African-American representatives in fact have similar media priorities.
Congress and the Media
Congress and the Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Congress and the Media write by C. Danielle Vinson. This book was released on 2017-02-09. Congress and the Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last four decades, members of Congress have increasingly embraced media relations as a way to influence national policymaking and politics. In 1977, nearly half of congressional members had no press secretary. Today, media relations is a central component of most congressional offices, and more of that communications effort is directed toward national media, not just the local press. Arguing that members of Congress turn to the media to enhance their formal powers or to compensate for their lack of power, Congress and the Media explains why congressional members go public and when they are likely to succeed in getting coverage. Vinson uses content analysis of national newspaper and television coverage of congressional members over time and members' messages on social media as well as case studies to examine how members in different political circumstances use the media to try to influence policymaking and how this has changed over time. She finds that members' institutional position, the political context, increasing partisan polarization, and journalists' evolving notions of what is newsworthy all affect which congressional members are interested in and successful in gaining media coverage of their messages and what they hope to accomplish by going public. Ultimately, Congress and the Media suggests that going public can be a way for members of Congress to move beyond their institutional powers, but the strategy is not equally available to all members nor effective for all goals.
