Media power in politics / [edited by] Doris A. Graber.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Putting mass media effects in perspective. The influence and effects of mass media / Denis McQuail -- Political communication systems and democratic values / Michael Gurevitch and Jay G. Blumler -- Newspapers / Walter Lippman -- Framing China / James Mann -- Monica Lewinsky's contribution to political science / John R. Zaller -- How synthetic experience shapes social reality / G. Ray Funkhouser and Eugene F. Shaw -- pt. 2. Shaping the political agenda and public opinion. Agenda-setting research : where has it been, where is it going? / Everett M. Rogers and James W. Dearing -- The agenda-setting function of the media : child abuse / Barbara J. Nelson -- News source use in the crash of 1987 : a study of four national media / Dominic L. Lasorsa and Stephen D. Reese -- What moves public opinion? / Benjamin I. Page, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Glenn R. Dempsey -- Public journalism and social capital : the case of Madison, Wisconsin / Lewis Friedland, Mira Sotirovic, and Katie Daily -- Constructing public opinion : the uses of fictional and nonfictional television in conversations about the environment / Michael X. Delli Carpini and Bruce A. Williams --

pt. 3. Influencing election outcomes. The craft of political advertising : a progress report / Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar -- Openseason : how the news media cover presidential campaigns in age of attack journalism / Larry J. Sabato -- Mainstream candidates on the Internet / Gary W. Selnow -- The miscast institution / Thomas E. Ptterson -- Trout or hamburger : politics and telemythology / Michael Schudson -- The formation of campaign agendas in the United States and Britain / Holli A. Semetko ... [et al.] -- pt. 4. Controlling media power : political actors versus the press. The uses of news : theory and (presidential) practice / Timothy E. Cook -- Surrogate state department? : Times coverage of Palestine, 1948 / Bruce J. Eversen -- How members of Congress use the media to influence public policy / Karen M. Kedrowski -- I am on TV therefore I am / Stephen Hess -- The media and Watergate / Gladys Engel Land and Kurt Lang -- Media, protest, and political violence : a transactional analysis / Gadi Wolfsfeld --

pt. 5. Guiding public policies. Homicide and bargained justice : the agenda-setting effect of crime news on prosecutors / David Pritchard -- Mass media roles in foreign policy / Patrick O'Heffernan -- Reporting the Gulf War / William Hachten with the collaboration of Marva Hachten -- The impact of investigative reporting on public opinion and policy making : targeting toxic waste / David L. Protess ... [et al.] -- The role of the press in health care reform debate of 1993-1994 / Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph N. Cappella -- Interest groups, the media, and policy debate formation : an analysis of message structure, rhetoric, and source cues / Nayda Terkildsen, Frauke I. Schnell, and Cristina Ling -- pt. 6. Regulating and manipulating media effects. Communications policy and the public interest / Patricia Aufderheide -- Television and the struggle for power in Russia / Ellen Mickiewicz -- How policy makers deal with the press / Martin Linsky -- Ethical conflict and investigative reporting : Le Monde and the contaminated blood affair / Mark Hunter -- World opinion during times of crisis / Frank Louis Rusciano and John Crothers Pollock -- Strategic communication / Jarol B. Manheim.