TY  - BOOK
AU  - David Copeland
PY  - 2013
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453911990
TI  - The Media’s Role in Defining the Nation
T2  - The Active Voice
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1199-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050843
N2  - In 1897, William Randolph Hearst said that his newspaper did not simply cover events that had already happened. «It doesn’t wait for things to turn up», Hearst said. «It turns them up.» This book traces the close relationship between media and the United States’ development from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. It explores how the active voice of citizen-journalists and trained media professionals has turned to media to direct the moral compass of the people and to set the agenda for a nation, and discusses how changes in technology have altered the way in which participatory journalism is practiced. What makes the book powerful is that its assessment of the influence and use of media encompasses many levels: it explores the potential of media as an agent for change from within small communities to the national stage.
KW  - journalism, U.S. history, broadcast, Media
LA  - English
ER  -