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Āmasañcāra, dvandva, ra ātaṅkavāda = Āmasañcāra, dvandva, ra ātaṅkavāda = Vijayakumāra Cālise Coverage of terrorism in Nepal by mass media; a study. OL1059893W
Panic Panic Richard C. McCorkle,Terrence D. Miethe,Terance D. Miethe,Richard C. McCorkle "Panic: The Social Construction of the Street Gang Problem deals with the "Discovery" of the street gang problem in the United States during the 1980s. In these pages, authors Richard McCorkle and Te… OL12021056W
Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias in American newspapers Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias in American newspapers Jeffrey Tischauser "This book compares the New York TImes news coverage of the Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006 and the Israeli-Gaza conflict of 2006 with war coverage as reported by the Chicago Tribune and Washington Tim… OL13856656W
Los Aires de la transicion democratica en Hidalgo Los Aires de la transicion democratica en Hidalgo Rosa Maria Ruiz Valles La legitimacion del poder se refrenda a traves de los comicios realizados con caracteristicas tales que garanticen el cambio de dirigentes gubernamentales de manera inobjetable, limpia, creible. En c… OL15178638W
Key to Victory Key to Victory Stephen I. Levine Key to Victory is the story of the New Zealand general election of 2008, in which the experienced and long-serving prime minister, Helen Clark, was ousted by a political newcomer – National’s John Ke… OL15574043W
About to die About to die Barbie Zelizer An analysis of about-to-die images in 19th, 20th and 21st century U.S. journalism, with some discussion of news images elsewhere, raises fundamental questions both about how these pictures depict the… OL15632421W
The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle Rebecca Solnit,David Solnit Summary:"From dawn to dusk on November 30, 1999, tens of thousands of people shut down the World Trade Organization meeting, facing cops firing tear gas and rubber bullets, the National Guard, and th… OL16227646W
Women writers and journalists in the nineteenth-century south Women writers and journalists in the nineteenth-century south Jonathan Daniel Wells "The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into southern intellectual life, the fight for women's r… OL16298220W
The room and the chair The room and the chair Lorraine Adams Imagines the lives of individuals who are impacted by present-day wars, from a ridiculed newspaper editor and an overburdened nuclear engineer to a woman fighter pilot and a religiously impassioned n… OL16457654W
China's environment and China's environment journalists China's environment and China's environment journalists Hugo de Burgh "A new specialism has appeared in China in recent years, that of environment correspondent. This study investigates them to understand their attitudes towards the environment, their means of operatio… OL16528589W
PRESIDENT OBAMA PRESIDENT OBAMA Poynter Institute for Media Studies Collects seventy-five newspaper front pages from Anchorage to Africa, capturing the emotion of this historic election. Includes highlights from fifty U.S. daily papers, a dozen international papers, … OL16633357W
Daring to feel Daring to feel Jody Santos ""Thou shall remain objective" is the number-one newsroom commandment, but lately cracks have begun to appear in the news media's objective facade. American journalists have been pushed to the emotio… OL16918111W
Red zone Red zone Oliver Poole "Imagine cheering on your national football team as your country falls apart; risking suicide bombers and kidnappers to go to the shops; or driving your wife to hospital through roadblocks manned by … OL17818738W
Al-Jazeera Al-Jazeera Mohammed El-Nawawy,Adel Iskandar,Adel Iskandar Farag "Al-Jazeera, the independent all-Arab television news network based in Qatar, has emerged as ambassador for the Arab world in the events following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Uni… OL18124461W
News for all the people News for all the people Juan Gonzalez "Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America's racial divisions have… OL18149199W
The watchdog that didn't bark The watchdog that didn't bark Dean Starkman In this sweeping, incisive study, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. Dividing j… OL18170691W
Trainwreck Trainwreck Sady Doyle "From Mary Wollstonecraft--who, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman--to Charlotte Brontë, Billie… OL19663953W
All the truth is out All the truth is out Matt Bai "The former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine brilliantly revisits the Gary Hart affair and looks at how it changed forever the intersection of American media and politics… OL19986569W
Mass-mediated terrorism Mass-mediated terrorism Brigitte Lebens Nacos With all new and expanded chapters, the third edition provides an in-depth look at how terrorists exploit mass media to get attention, spread fear and anxiety among the targets of this sort of violen… OL20029910W
Frenzy! Frenzy! Neil Root "We live in a twenty-four hour television news and internet culture. Events are on air and online within hours, sometimes minutes or seconds. This book tells the stories of three infamous serial kill… OL20933878W
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