The Manufacture Of News

Monograph on information dissemination and the response of the mass media to deviant behaviour and social problems, based on a broad survey of the press in the UK and the USA - examines the usual criteria for the selection of news items, the typical modes and techniques of presentation, discusses the effects of news stories on public opinion, social problems, and social policy, etc., and outlines the research methodology. References.

An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news.

Covers four inter-related subject areas: news and journalism theories, practices, environments and technologies. Different genres of reporting are covered such as business, crime, environmental, fashion, lifestyle, investigative, science, sports and war journalism.

Written in the aftermath of World War I, this essay by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist remains relevant in its denunciation of media bias, particularly in terms of wartime propaganda.