Making news : a study in the construction of reality /
Gaye Tuchman.
- London ; New York : The Free Press, c1978.
- xi, 244 p. : ill. b&w ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. News as a frame -- 2. Space and the news net -- 3. Time and typifications -- 4. Flexibility and professionalism -- 5. The web of facticity -- 6. Representation and the news narrative -- 7. The topic of the women's movement -- 8. Facts, freedom of speech, and ideology -- 9. News as a constructed reality -- 10. News as knowledge.
This pioneering study of the news media is informed by first-rate field research of the workings of the mass media and to the understanding of modern American culture. Lewis A. Corse, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook.