Gutsche, Robert E.,  1980- <br/><br/>
Media control :  news as an institution of power and social control / 
Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. 
 - New York :  Bloomsbury Academic,  2015. 
 - x, 383 p. ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical referecens and index. 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Making News: Purposes, Practices & Pandering -- Chapter 2 - Press as Paternal Authority: Veiling Power via 'The Fourth Estate' -- Chapter 3 - Controversies, Conspiracies & Confusion: News as Cultural Distraction -- Chapter 4 - Normalizing Surveillance & Control: How the Press Contribute to Policing -- Chapter 5 - The Myth of Media Literacy & Why Americans Will Never Have It -- Conclusion. 
<br/><br/> "A critical approach to the cultural function of news media, arguing that news is an institution that performs a function of social control under the guise of the Fourth Estate"-- Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781628922967 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015015866 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Journalism--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Journalism--Political aspects--History--United States--21st century.<br/>Mass media--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Mass media--Political aspects--History--United States--21st century.<br/>Press and politics--United States.<br/>Social control--United States.<br/>LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P95.82.U6  / G88 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.23/0973