Politics and the Media

Summer 2008 / Volume 10 / No. 2

Politics and the Media

Table of Contents

From the Editor

Introduction

From the Editors

The Public Presence of American Political Cartoons

Donald Dewey’s The Art of Ill Will & J. G. Lewin and P. J. Huff’s Lines of Contention

Kristine K. Ronan

Articles

News and Democratic Society: Past, Present, and Future

Michael Schudson

Photo-Op Politics

Kiku Adatto

Do the News Media Starve the Civic IQ? Squaring Impressions and Facts

Doris A. Graber

Thirty-Second Democracy: Campaign Advertising and American Elections

Paul Freedman

The Negative Effect: News, Politics, and the Public

Thomas E. Patterson

Journalism: Looking Backward, Going Forward

Robert W. McChesney

Interview

Interview with E. J. Dionne, Jr.

Charles Mathewes

Reviews

Jody C. Baumgartner and Jonathan S. Morris’s Laughing Matters

Tatiana Omeltchenko

Mamoun Fandy’s (Un)Civil War of Words

Jonathan Readey

Bibliographic Review of Critical Texts on Politics and the Media

Christopher McKnight Nichols

Listing of Recent Relevant Releases

From the Editors