Media Control News as an Institution of Power and Social Control [Paperback]

Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Controlchallenges traditional (and even some radical) perceptions of how the news works. While it's clear that journalists don't operate objectively  reporters don't just cover news, but they make it Media Controlgoes a step further by arguing that the cultural institution of news approaches and presents everyday information from particular and dominant cultural positions that benefit the power elite.

From analysing how the press operate as police agents by conducting surveillance and instituting social order through its coverage of crime and police action to bolstering private business and neoliberal principles by covering the news through notions of boosterism,Media Controlpresents the news through a cultural lens. Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. introduces or advances readers' applications of critical race theory and cultural studies scholarship to explore cultural meanings within news coverage of police action, the criminal justice system, and embedding into the news democratic values that are later used by the power elite to oppress and repress portions of the citizenry.Media Controlhelps the reader explicate how the power elite use the press and the veil of the Fourth Estate to further white ideologies and American Imperialism.

Acknowledgements
Preface

Introduction

I. The Experience of Experiencing Power: A Beginning
II. Purpose of the Book
III. Plan of the Book

1. Power, Propaganda & the Purpose of News

I. Explicating the Embassy Evacuations: The Purpose of Banal News
II. Power: A Briefing on News as Commodity
III. Incorporating the News: Joining 'The Power Elite'
IV. Conclusion: Interpreting News as Propaganda

2. Making News: Purposes, Practices & Pandering

I. News as National Rhetoric: The Boston Bombing
II. Narratives of Journalism Studies: Politics, Profits & Media-making
III. From lSÍ