Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy. (book reviews)
American Political Science Review, September, 1993 by Bennett, W. Lance
These two books represent different perspectives in the ongoing debate about how to define and observe communication and its effects. For several years now, communication scholars have been embroiled in how (and whether) to bridge the gap between the information properties of messages and the information that audiences actually get out of those messages.
One point of view has been most concerned with how news and political advertising are produced (e.g., how economic pressures inside news organizations and marketing imperatives in political advertising restrict the range of ideas and ...
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