We Keep America on Top of the World(English, Paperback, Hallin Daniel)

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We Keep America on Top of the World(English, Paperback, Hallin Daniel) is written by Hallin Daniel and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0415091438 (ISBN 10) and 9780415091435 (ISBN 13).

We Keep America on Top of the World is a lucid exploration of contemporary American journalism, with particular emphasis on its influential and controversial conponent - television news. Daniel Hallin's discussion encompasses the central and most controversial issues in the study of journalism: the wars in Vietnam and Central America; US-Soviet summits; the origin of the ten-second soundbite; the differences between print and television journalism; and the tension between professionalism and populism. We Keep America on Top of the World offers a distinctive approach to understanding an institution torn between the imperatives of the market, political ideology and popular fashion, and journalistic professionalism. It will be essential reading for students of media, communication and journalism.