The American News Media Before and After 11 September 2001

As the field of objectivity and bias has always been
debated in mass media, an analysis of political
newspaper articles before and after the terror
attack at the beginning of the Bush administration
gives a perfect opportunity to study how this
phenomenon was changed by such an event. This book
provides one hundred and forty-five articles dealing
with the Bush agenda and foreign and internal
affairs taken from Republican and Democrat partisan
newspapers.
The reader is introduced into the basics of mass
media and their functions, is also guided through
the development of the national newspaper and is
given the main concepts of objectivity and bias.
Three important American daily papers, The
Washington Times, New York Times and The Washington
Post along with Time magazine are contrasted. The
articles examined cover the first presidential year
of George W. Bush, however, they are considered as
two separated periods.
This book is widely useful to students and lecturers
whose interests are focused on the Bush
administration and also for those who would like to
get an inside view of the political skirmishings in
newpaper articles.

Autorentext

Anett Csizmadia-Ormándlaky, MSc: Studied English and French at Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College of Szeged University and English literature at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Teacher of English at Hild József Secondary Technical School of Construction, Gyor, Hungary.

Klappentext

As the field of objectivity and bias has always been debated in mass media, an analysis of political newspaper articles before and after the terror attack at the beginning of the Bush administration gives a perfect opportunity to study how this phenomenon was changed by such an event. This book provides one hundred and forty-five articles dealing with the Bush agenda and foreign and internal affairs taken from Republican and Democrat partisan newspapers. The reader is introduced into the basics of mass media and their functions, is also guided through the development of the national newspaper and is given the main concepts of objectivity and bias. Three important American daily papers, The Washington Times, New York Times and The Washington Post along with Time magazine are contrasted. The articles examined cover the first presidential year of George W. Bush, however, they are considered as two separated periods. This book is widely useful to students and lecturers whose interests are focused on the Bush administration and also for those who would like to get an inside view of the political skirmishings in newpaper articles.