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Although there may not be a consensus on what the media's role in politics is or should be, it is clear that the media's pervasive influence has profoundly changed politics in America. In this collection of 37 essays (15 of them new to this edition), Graber explores the history of mass media and its ability to shape political agendas. The new essay titles include, Open Season: How the News Media Cover Presidential Campaigns in the Age of Attack Journalism and I Am on TV, Therefore I Am.

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• Topic Correlation Chart(p. xi)
• Preface(p. xiii)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Part I Putting Mass Media Effects in Perspective(p. 5)
• 1 The Influence and Effects of Mass Media(p. 7)
• 2 Political Communication Systems and Democratic Values(p. 25)
• 3 Newspapers(p. 37)
• 4 El Salvador's Civil War as Seen in North and South American Press(p. 45)
• 5 Before and After The Day After: The Unexpected Results of a Televised Drama(p. 54)
• 6 How Synthetic Experience Shapes Social Reality(p. 66)
• Part II Shaping the Political Agenda and Public Opinion(p. 75)
• 7 Agenda-Setting Research: Where Has It Been, Where Is It Going?(p. 77)
• 8 The Agenda-Setting Function of the Media: Child Abuse(p. 96)
• 9 News Source Use in the Crash of 1987: A Study of Four National Media(p. 110)
• 10 What Moves Public Opinion?(p. 123)
• 11 Television News and Citizens' Explanations of National Affairs(p. 139)
• 12 Charting the Mainstream: Television's Contributions to Political Orientations(p. 150)
• Part III Influencing Election Outcomes(p. 159)
• 13 The Media in Elections: Evidence on the Role and the Impact(p. 161)
• 14 Views of Winners and Losers(p. 176)
• 15 The Great American Video Game(p. 184)
• 16 Open Season: How the News Media Cover Presidential Campaigns in the Age of Attack Journalism(p. 193)
• 17 The Formation of Campaign Agendas in the United States and Britain(p. 204)
• 18 Show Horses in House Elections: The Advantages and Disadvantages of National Media Visibility(p. 212)
• Part IV Controlling Media Power: Political Actors Versus the Press(p. 225)
• 19 The Six O'Clock Presidency: Patterns of Network News Coverage of the President(p. 227)
• 20 Surrogate State Department? Times Coverage of Palestine, 1948(p. 239)
• 21 Three Faces of Congressional Media(p. 248)
• 22 I Am on TV Therefore I Am(p. 264)
• 23 The Media and Watergate(p. 273)
• 24 Media, Protest, and Political Violence: A Transactional Analysis(p. 281)
• 25 The Manufacture of 'Public Opinion' by Reporters: Informal Cues for Public Perceptions of Protest Groups(p. 296)
• Part V Guiding Public Policies(p. 311)
• 26 Homicide and Bargained Justice: The Agenda-Setting Effect of Crime News on Prosecutors(p. 313)
• 27 Mass Media Roles in Foreign Policy(p. 325)
• 28 Reporting the Gulf War(p. 337)
• 29 The Impact of Investigative Reporting on Public Opinion and Policy Making: Targeting Toxic Waste(p. 346)
• 30 John L. Hess and the Nursing Home Scandal(p. 360)
• 31 Elite Ideology and Risk Perception in Nuclear Energy Policy(p. 370)
• Part VI Regulating and Manipulating Media Effects(p. 379)
• 32 The Politics of Broadcast Regulation(p. 381)
• 33 The Norman Conquest: Freedom of the Press in Britain and America(p. 395)
• 34 How Policy Makers Deal with the Press(p. 403)
• 35 Chernobyl: The Packaging of Transnational Ecological Disaster(p. 412)
• 36 International Information: Bullet or Boomerang?(p. 423)
• 37 Strategic Communication(p. 429)

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Doris A. Graber is professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago