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Audience feedback in the news media /

Reader, Bill, 1970-

Audience feedback in the news media / Bill Reader. - New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. - viii, 187 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge research in journalism ; 11 .

Copy no. (201920) Purchase 2017

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audience comments, the spice of history -- "Packets of letters": audience comments before freedom of the press -- "A sure sign of liberty, and a cause of it": audience feedback and the emergence of the free press -- Commodification of comments: professional bias and gatekeeping of letters to the editor -- Professional journalism's transformation of "a quaint tradition" -- Concerning "crackpots": the media's love-hate relationship with feedback -- "In my opinion ...": commenting as individual agency -- "We, the people ...": commenting as collective action -- Conclusion: Gatekeeping in an age without fences.

9781138775336 (hbk)

2014036835


Journalism--Public opinion.
Mass media--Public opinion.
Press--Public opinion.

P96.P83 / R425 2015

302.23