Michael Schudson Books
The 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...
Read MoreThe Good Citizen: A History of American CIVIC Life
In 1996 less than half of all eligible voters even bothered to vote. Fewer citizens each year follow government and public affairs regularly or even think they should. Is popular sovereignty a fail...
Read MoreDiscovering The News
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,...
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