Michael Schudson Books
Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers
This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective "news" was the social product of the democratization of political, economic,...
Read MoreThe power of news
Some say it's simply information, mirroring the world. Others believe it's propaganda, promoting a partisan view. But news, Michael Schudson tells us, is really both and neither; it is a form of cu...
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