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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 302.230973 EAN: 9780195366822 ISBN: 0195366824 Label: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: July 22, 2008 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Studio: Oxford University Press, USA Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Rupert Murdoch's recent multibillion-dollar purchase of the Wall Street Journal made international news. Yet it is but one more chapter in an untold story: the rise of an integrated conservative media machine that all began with Rush Limbaugh in the 1980s. Now Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph Cappella--two of the nation's foremost experts on politics and communications--offer a searching analysis of the conservative media establishment, from talk radio to Fox News to the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Indeed, here is the first serious account of how the conservative media arose, what it consists of, and how it operates. To show how this influential segment of the media works, the authors examine the uproar that followed when Senator Trent Lott seemed to endorse Strom Thurmond's segregationist past. Limbaugh called the remarks "utterly indefensible," but added that a "double standard" was in play. That signaled a broad counterattack by the conservative media establishment, charging the mainstream media with hypocrisy (yet using its reports when convenient), creating a knowledge base (a set of facts or allegations for partisans to draw upon), and fostering an in-group identity. By analyzing such cases, together with survey data, Jamieson and Cappella find that Limbaugh, Fox News, and the Wall Street Journal opinion pages create a self-protective enclave for conservatives, shielding them from other information sources, and promoting strongly negative associations with political opponents. Limbaugh in particular, they write, fuses the roles of party leader and opinion leader in a fashion reminiscent of the nineteenth century's partisan newspaper editors. The rise of conservative media has fundamentally changed American politics. This thoughtful study offers the most authoritative and insightful account of this revolutionary phenomenon available today. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Rush Limbaugh - The Ultimate Lipsticked PigEcho Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment A paid shill for for the most non egalitarian, anti-American man in the media is described unemotionally and given credence where none is deserved. Rush Limbaugh and his emulators on "Conservative Talk Radio" are nothing but Fascist rubes with enviable abilities to articulate inaccurate information and policy positions as though they were, somehow, worthwhile and valuable to our citizens. If George Bush ... Read More Rating:  - Top Notch BookAt a time when the future of the nation is at stake the authors do an excellent job of identifying the methods of the rabid right wing in America. Rating:  - Quite comprehensive and thoroughI enjoyed reading the book. It really gave a good impression of the conservative media. Especially the parts that dealt with Rush Limbaugh hepled me lot. Rating: - Slanted packaging, but sound contentThe back-cover blurbs, title, chosen subject matter, cover art, and the use of scare quotes around terms like "liberal media" all contribute to an overwhelming but incorrect first impression: The book looks at first glance like a hand-wringing, liberal worryfest about how conservatives are ... well, talking. I'm a conservative, so I'll grant I'm a little sensitive to these things (just as liberals are sensitive to slander). However, I'm also a teacher and specialist in rhetoric, and quite interested ... Read More 
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