Description:
Here is an important contribution to the debate about the responsibilities of the news media raging among pundits and policymakers. The book provides an in-depth analysis of how voters use and evaluate the news media, and why the news has little incentive to adjust to the needs of its viewers.
Review Quotes: If the commercial news media are so inclined to give the audience what they want, how is it that the news audience so seldom gets what it needs? That is the paradox that motivates Dautrich and Hartley's thoughtful new study of the 1996 election. Using fresh panel data from the Media Studies Center and the University of Connecticut, the authors probe the depths of public dissatisfaction and persistent concern abou media bias.