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News and News Sources

A Critical Introduction
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News and News Sources offers a fresh introduction to the sociology of news. It is often suggested that the powerful dominate news agendas. Increasingly however, less powerful groups are employing sophisticated media strategies and new communications technologies to get their message across.
Paul manning is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at De Monfort University
Why Worry about the Sources of News Theorizing News Media and News Sources Journalists and News Production Proprietors, Corporations and Politicians Political Elites, the State and Categories of Knowledge Considering the Powerful and Politically Marginal News Media Politics and the Politically Marginal News Audiences and News Sources
`An exceptionally well-written text which gives readers a lucid, authoritative, well-researched and theoretically sophisticated guide to the relationship between news media and their "sources" - the people and organisations that seek to appear in and shape the news' - Professor Peter Golding, Loughborough University `Manning does an excellent job of combining what we know from the existing literature with his own research, and presenting a useful framework for doing analyses of news sources' - Peter D Dahlgren, The University of Lund
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