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Table of Contents:

• Ignored factchecks and the media's crisis of conscience / Brendan Nyhan
• News media fact-checking can be selective and biased / James Taranto
• News media fact-checking is futile / Jack Shafer
• News media fact-checking is a tool to control public discourse / Mark Hemingway
• The news media must do a better job of informing the public of vital global developments / Juan Cole
• The news media should celebrate traditional values / Dan Gainor
• The dumbest anchormen / Jonah Goldberg
• There is a conservative media bias / John Merline
• There is no significant media bias / Paul Farhi
• The biased media is trying to influence political elections / L. Brent Bozell III
• Charges of media bias are an attempt to influence media coverage / Eric Alterman
• A partisan media may inspire participation and interest in political issues / Paul Starr
• A partisan media adds to government dysfunction / James L. Baughman
• Movie violence chic / Michael Massing
• There will not be blood / Charles Kenny
• Media consolidation threatens democracy and free speech / Ziad El-Hady
• Big government, not big media, threatens free speech / Don Watkins
• Social and digital media are the new mass media / The Economist
• Mobile technology is the future of media / Richard Ting
• Live blogging is transforming journalism / Matt Wells

• Twitter is transforming journalism / Jeff Jarvis.

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Contributors:

Haerens, Margaret , editor

Zott, Lynn M. (Lynn Marie), 1969- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Mass media (Haerens)

Related Series:

Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)

Subjects:

Mass media

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

P87.25 .M37 2014

ISBNs:

9780737766608 (hardcover)
0737766603 (hardcover)
9780737766615 (pbk.)
0737766611 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013032063

OCLC Numbers:

857754232