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(0)Adam Joseph Schiffer
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"Given the news media's central role in contemporary American politics, there have been loud calls for it to be taken seriously as a political institution by scholars of American politics. This book heeds that call by theorizing and testing the conditions under which the press acts as an independent political institution, and when it cedes its power to other actors or phenomena. It supplements the large political science literature on media effects...
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"Media bias has been a hot-button issue for several decades, and it features prominently in the post 2016 political conversation. Yet it receives only spotty treatment in existing materials aimed at political communication or introductory American politics courses. Evaluating Media Bias is a brief, supplemental resource that provides an academically informed but broadly accessible overview of the major concepts and controversies involving media bias....