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13 of the Best Books and Articles on: The President and the News Media

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The Press and the Modern Presidency: Myths and Mindsets from Kennedy to Clinton » Read Now
by Louis W. Liebovich. 237 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

A comprehensive examination of press-presidential relations in the era since 1960.
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The Six O'Clock Presidency: A Theory of Presidential Press Relations in the Age of Television » Read Now
by Fredric T. Smoller. 158 pgs.

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Studying the increasingly powerful role television plays in the political process, Smoller offers a persuasive argument that the "big three" network coverage of the presidency is gradually eroding public support for and confidence in that office. This book argues that network coverage of the...
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Studying the increasingly powerful role television plays in the political process, Smoller offers a persuasive argument that the "big three" network coverage of the presidency is gradually eroding public support for and confidence in that office. This book argues that network coverage of the presidency is determined by the political, technical, and commercial nature of the medium itself, producing a bias toward negative coverage. Attempts by the White House to combat these negative portrayals by managing news coverage and isolating the president will subvert democratic values.
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Presidential Crisis Rhetoric and the Press in the Post-Cold War World » Read Now
by Jim A. Kuypers. 250 pgs.

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Kuypers combines rhetorical theory and framing analysis in an examination of the interaction of the press and the president during international crisis situations in the post-Cold War world. Three crises are examined: Bosnia, Haiti, and the North Korean nuclear capability issue. Kuypers effectively...
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Kuypers combines rhetorical theory and framing analysis in an examination of the interaction of the press and the president during international crisis situations in the post-Cold War world. Three crises are examined: Bosnia, Haiti, and the North Korean nuclear capability issue. Kuypers effectively demonstrates the changed nature of presidential crisis rhetoric since the end of the Cold War.
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Presidential Polls and the News Media » Read Now
by Paul J. Lavrakas, Michael W. Traugott, Peter V. Miller. 282 pgs.

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Foreign Policy and the Press: An Analysis of the New York Times' Coverage of U.S. Foreign Policy » Read Now
by Nicholas O. Berry. 164 pgs.

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This study challenges the notions that the U.S. press is either an active participant in the foreign policy process or an instrument of presidential manipulation. Based on a content analysis of New York Times' reporting of five recent foreign policy disasters, Berry explores the thesis that the...
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This study challenges the notions that the U.S. press is either an active participant in the foreign policy process or an instrument of presidential manipulation. Based on a content analysis of New York Times' reporting of five recent foreign policy disasters, Berry explores the thesis that the press accepts administration assumptions on foreign policy matters, but only until the policy fails. The work also addresses the differences between domestic and foreign policy reporting, and compares the work of foreign-based correspondents with that of U.S.-based reporters.
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The Making of Theodore H. White's "The Making of the President 1960", in Presidential Studies Quarterly » Read Now
by John E. Miller. 18 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...biased as The Making of the President 1960 was, its bold reimagining...political reporting could be and the verve and industry with which...were made that had seldom made...
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The Critical Press and the New Deal: The Press Versus Presidential Power, 1933-1938 » Read Now
by Gary Dean Best. 199 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book challenges generally accepted views by concluding that the critical press, so often characterized by pro-New Deal historians as conservative or reactionary, was in fact a good deal more "liberal" than Roosevelt and his advisors. Without its opposition to Roosevelt's policies during the...
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This book challenges generally accepted views by concluding that the critical press, so often characterized by pro-New Deal historians as conservative or reactionary, was in fact a good deal more "liberal" than Roosevelt and his advisors. Without its opposition to Roosevelt's policies during the years before Congress began to reassert its constitutional responsibilities, the United States might well have deviated considerably from the path of constitutional and democratic government.
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Bylines in Despair: Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression, and the U.S. News Media » Read Now
by Louis W. Liebovich. 223 pgs.

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Through a long public life and short presidency, Herbert Hoover carefully cultivated reporters and media owners as he rose from a relief administrator to president of the United States. During his service to government, he held the conviction that journalists were to be manipulated and mistrusted...
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Through a long public life and short presidency, Herbert Hoover carefully cultivated reporters and media owners as he rose from a relief administrator to president of the United States. During his service to government, he held the conviction that journalists were to be manipulated and mistrusted. When the nation fell into economic disaster, Hoover's misconceptions about the press and press relations exacerbated a national calamity. This book traces the entire history of Hoover's relationship with magazines, newspapers, newsreel organizations, and radio, and demonstrates how an attitude toward the U.S. press can help or hinder a public figure throughout his career. The book draws upon diaries of Hoover aides, oral histories from journalists and other media figures, newspaper and magazine clippings, radio broadcasts, newsreels, public documents, archival manuscripts, and a plethora of published secondary books and articles. This may be the most complete and best-documented study of a single president and the,media.
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The Talkative President: The Off-The-Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge » Read Now
by Howard H. Quint, Robert H. Ferrell, Calvin Coolidge. 276 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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On Behalf of the President: Four Factors Affecting the Success of the Presidential Press Secretary, in Presidential Studies Quarterly » Read Now
by Michael J. Towle. 23 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...directly from television news, was touted by the president as a journalist who understood...the electronic and print media.(117) The press never...Joynt Kumar, Portraying...
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The President, the Press, and the War-Making Power: An Analysis of Media Coverage Prior to the Persian Gulf War, in Presidential Studies Quarterly » Read Now
by David A. Lewis, Roger P. Rose. 13 pgs.

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...extensively the media covered war powers during the months leading...ABCs World News Tonight...Papers of the Presidents of the United...with the media and convey...
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Media Feeding Frenzies: Press Behavior during Two Clinton Scandals., in Presidential Studies Quarterly » Read Now
by Paul J. Maurer. 15 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the power of media, press behavior...recently, President Bill Clinton...Lewinsky. How the press covers...standard for the news media in terms...in All the Presidents Men...
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Downsizing the News: Network Cutbacks in the Nation's Capital (Chap. 5 "Covering the White House And Congress") » Read Now
by Penn Kimball. 184 pgs.

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...Scholar at the Media Studies Project of the Woodrow Wilson...inauguration of President Clinton in...network evening news. I interviewed...York. The presidents of the news...