Media control news as an institution of power and social control / Robert E. Gutsche, Jr.

Contents Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Making News: Purposes, Practices & Pandering -- Chapter 2 - Press as Paternal Authority: Veiling Power via 'The Fourth Estate' -- Chapter 3 - Controversies, Conspiracies & Confusion: News as Cultural Distraction -- Chapter 4 - Normalizing Surveillance & Control: How the Press Contribute to Policing -- Chapter 5 - The Myth of Media Literacy & Why Americans Will Never Have It -- Conclusion.
Abstract "A critical approach to the cultural function of news media, arguing that news is an institution that performs a function of social control under the guise of the Fourth Estate"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical referecens and index.
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LCCN 2015015866
ISBN9781628922967 (hardback)