Making Laws and Making News

Timothy Cook

doi:10.5771/9780815717287

Summary

The news media, especially television, have become a fixture on Capitol Hill in the past twenty years. Making Laws and Making News describes the interactive relationship between the press and Congress that strongly affects the news, the legislative process, and the types of laws enacted. Instead of focusing on how reporters decide who and what to cover and how news is resented, Cook examines the other side of the equationthe relationship between the media strategies of House member’s press offices and the legislative strategies of the members themselves. The book won the 1990 Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8157-1557-3
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8157-1728-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 210
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
1. Observation: Publicity Drives Out Legislating No access
2. Response: Publicity Is Irrelevant to Legislating No access
3. A Third Possibility: Making News Leads to Making Laws No access
4. The Capitol Hill Perspective No access
1. Before the Reporter No access
2. Beginnings of the Washington Press Corps No access
3. Toward Modern Washington Journalism No access
4. Entry of the Electronic Media No access
5. Who Leads the Dance? No access
1. A Permeable Press Corps No access
2. What and Who Become News No access
3. The Shape of Congressional Coverage No access
4. Localizing and Specializing No access
1. The Professionalizing of Press Secretaries No access
2. Local and National Newsmaking No access
3. Media Strategies in the High-Tech Era No access
4. The House in the Media Age No access
1. Press Secretaries' Priorities No access
2. Campaign Coverage No access
3. Media Strategy and Publicity No access
4. Publicity and Voters Decisions No access
5. Less Is Not More for the Voters No access
1. The Media and the Agenda No access
2. Choosing an Issue No access
3. Party Leaders and the Agenda No access
4. Selling the Issue: A Case Study No access
5. Congressional Agendas and Media Agendas No access
1. Can Complementarity Work? No access
2. The Outsider and the Inside Strategy No access
3. The Insider and the Outside Strategy No access
4. Legislating under the Spotlight No access
1. Policymaking Processes and the Media No access
2. Congress and Mass-Mediated Democracy No access
APPENDIX A: METHODOLOGY No access Pages 179 - 191
APPENDIX B: HOUSE MEMBERS AND NETWORK EVENING NEWS No access Pages 192 - 198
APPENDIX C: PRESS SECRETARY'S JOB DESCRIPTION No access Pages 199 - 202
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