Media power in politics / Doris A. Graber,

Section one. Mass media effects : from the past to the future -- The evolution of news content in the American press / Bernard Roshco -- The effectiveness of mass communication / Joseph T. Klapper -- The influence and effects of mass media / Denis McQuail -- Experimental demonstrations of the'not-so-minimal' consequences of television news programs / Shanto Iyengar, Mark D. Peters, Donald R. Kinder -- Section two. Shaping the political agenda -- The agenda-setting function of the press / Maxwell E. McCombs and Donald L. Shaw -- Newspapers / Walter Lippmann -- Accepting the system / David L. Paletz and Robert M. Entman -- Communication and community conflict / Philip J. Tichenor, George A. Donohue, Clarice N. Olien -- Business coverage in network newscasts / Joseph R. Dominick -- Media and business elites : two classes in conflict? / Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter -- Charting the mainstream: television's contributions to political orientations / George Gerbner ... [et al.] -- Can democracy survive television? / Jarol B. Manheim -- Section three. Influencing election outcomes -- Views of winners and losers / Thomas E. Patterson -- A man for all seasons : the mediated world of election campaigns / Dan Nimmio and James E. Combs -- Campaign organizations confront the media-political environment / F. Christopher Arterion -- On the bus / Timothy Crouse -- A participant-observer study of TV campaign coverage / David H. Ostroff -- Media power in presidential elections : an exploratory analysis, 1960-1980 / William C. Adams -- Section four. Affecting political actors and the balance of power -- President Reagan's news conference Jan. 14, 1983 -- The refracting lens / Michael Baruch Grossman and Martha Joynt Kumar -- The media and Watergate / Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang -- Three faces of congressional media / Michael J. Robinson -- The press and the committee system / Mary Russell -- Prerequisites for access to the press / Edie Goldenberg -- Making protest movements newsworthy / Todd Gitlin -- Section five. Guiding public policies -- Television and the urban crisis / Robert Muccigrosso -- The press and NEPA : the case of the missing agenda / A. Clay Schoenfeld -- At Three Mile Island / Peter M. Sandman and Mary Paden -- Reporters and Congressmen : living in symbiosis / Susan Heilmann Miller -- Transnational terrorism and the Western elite press / Michael J. Kelly and Thomas H. Mitchell -- Televising the Vietnam War / David Halberstam -- Iran vs. U.S. TV news : the hostage story out of context / David Altheide -- Section six. Controlling media effects -- The politics of broadcast regulation / Erwin G. Krasnow, Lawrence D. Longley, Herbert A. Terry -- The Pentagon Papers case - U.S. Supreme Court -- Crisis news management in the Kennedy years / William J. Small -- Journalist meets propagandist / Ben H. Bagdikian -- A growing controversy : the'free flow' of news among nations / John C. Merrill -- Genesis of the free flow of information principles / Herbert I. Schiller.