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

by Daniel Hallin

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; and the tension between professionalism and populism.
We Keep America on Top of the World offers a distinctive approach to understanding an institution torn between the imperatives of the market, political ideology and popular fashion, and journalistic professionalism. It will be essential reading for students of media, communication and journalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415091435
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/04/1993
Series:	Communication and Society
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel C.Hallin is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of ‘The Uncensored War’: The Media and Vietnam, and of many articles on journalism and politics.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The American news media; Chapter 3 The media, the war in Vietnam, and polltical support; Chapter 4 From Vietnam to El Salvador; Chapter 5 ‘We Keep America on Top of the World’; Chapter 6 Speaking of the president; Chapter 7 Soundbite news; Chapter 8 Summits and the constitution of an international public sphere; Chapter 9 The passing of the ‘high modernism’ of American journalism;