●INTRODUCTION: THE CULTURE OF NEWS
●1 THE RISE OF 'OBJECTIVE' NEWSPAPER REPORTING
● From smoke signals to daily newspapers
● The emergence of popular journalism
● Separating 'facts' from 'values'
● The toil of ink-stained hacks
● 'Objectivity' as a professional ideal
● Further reading
●2 THE EARLY DAYS OF RADIO AND TELEVISION NEWS
● BBC News on the 'wireless'
● The start of radio news in the USA
● The limits of 'impartiality': British television news
● US television news begins
● Further reading
●3 MAKING NEWS: TRUTH, IDEOLOGY AND NEWSWOPK
● Structuring public debate
● News values and frames
● Routinizing the unexpected
● A hierarchy of credibility
● Issues of access......
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我們應該打破“媒體—社論，這樣我們纔能更好地理清千頭萬緒的問題，解決麻煩重重的矛盾，但在純概念的背景下人們往往直接回避了這些難題。我們應該盡力發現新聞媒體如何與其賴以生存的權力和控制力之間保持相互依存的關繫，同時我們還應該看到新聞媒體是如何曲解、改變，甚至挑戰這種唇齒相依的關繫的。
