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This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s, Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of humanitarianism and public order. In both countries, less commercialized media tend to offer the most in-depth, multi-perspective and critical news. Benson challenges classic liberalism's assumptions about state intervention's chilling effects on the press, suggests costs as well as benefits to the current vogue in personalized narrative news, and calls attention to journalistic practices that can help empower civil society. This book offers new theories and methods for sociologists and media scholars and fresh insights for journalists, policy makers and concerned citizens.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Shaping Immigration News
• Subtitle: A French-American Comparison
• Author: Rodney Benson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780521887670
• ISBN: 0521887674
• ID: 02049181
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 546 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. August 2013

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