TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reader,Bill
TI  - Audience feedback in the news media
T2  - Routledge research in journalism
SN  - 9781138775336 (hbk)
AV  - P96.P83 R425 2015
U1  - 302.23 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Press
N1  - 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
ER  -