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White House to Your House
Edwin DiamondRobert A. Silverman
其他書名
Media and Politics in Virtual America
出版MIT Press, 1995
主題Performing Arts / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Process / Campaigns & ElectionsPolitical Science / Political Process / GeneralPolitical Science / American Government / NationalPolitical Science / American Government / GeneralSocial Science / Media Studies
ISBN026254086X9780262540865
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Pfa5IXM5lssC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"In the pages that follow, we trace the emergence of a place that looks like a real democracy, and a real country, but is in fact a construct, like reality but not real. It is Virtual America." The new technologies of the 1990s, Ed Diamond and Robert Silverman argue, have helped create a blowhard culture, a talk-show politics driven by instant news analysis, over-reliance on public-opinion polls and focus groups, the power of Know-Nothing call-in shows, and the unchecked gossip of online computer networks. White House to Your House is a fast-paced account of contemporary media coverage of national politics during a time when the top two books on the best-seller list were by Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern. Included are lively analyses of what's behind the image makers' takeover of the old Washington policy-making machinery, how Bill Clinton prevailed in 1992 only to lose both his good press and his job approval ratings less than two years later, what the rise of right-wing populism from Ross.