A History of the American Civil Rights Movement Through Newspaper Coverage: The Race Agenda, Volume 2

ISBN-13: 9781433153976 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 494 str.

Steve Hallock

Opis

This book is an analysis of newspaper coverage of the civil-rights movement from 1963 to 1971, focusing on such theoretical concepts as agenda-setting, framing and gatekeeping to discern how newspapers of different regions of the country shaped that narrative.

Recenzje

"Steve Hallock's second volume of his study of newspaper coverage of the civil rights era continues to represent a giant leap in our understanding of how the press covered that period. Far more in-depth than what other historians have written, this book disposes of the myth of the northern and southern newspapers being monolithic, with each part of the country framing the story differently and using agenda setting to subtly put their slant on the events that occurred. In fact, different papers in the same part of the country did not always operate in the same fashion. And importantly, Hallock also shows how western papers had their own mediated reality of the era, too. All of this results in an important book that will be a must read for future researchers of the press and the civil rights era."-Patrick S. Washburn, Professor Emeritus at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and author of A Question of Sedition: The Federal Government's Investigation of the Black Press during World War II (1986) and The African American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom (2006)

Spis treści

David R. Davies: Foreword - Introduction - Terrorism in Alabama But Legislative Hope in Washington - Murder in Mississippi - Marching to Vote in Selma - Voting Rights for All; Racial Riots Migrate North and West; Supreme Court Lands New Justice - A Summer of Riots - A Study on Racism; Assassination in Memphis - A More Militant Advocacy - The Supreme Court and School Desegregation Redux; Some Concluding Remarks - Index.

O autorze

Steve Hallock is director of the graduate program for the School of Communication at Pittsburgh's Point Park University. He earned a Ph.D. in journalism from Ohio University in 2005 after a nearly 30-year newspaper career and is the author of eight books, the most recent being the 2018 A History of the American Civil Rights Movement Through Newspaper Coverage: The Race Agenda, Volume I. He has published commentaries in newspapers that include The New York Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Philadelphia Inquirer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Denver Post.