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082			_a302.23 COO
100			_aCook, Timothy E
245			_aGoverning with the News: The News Media as a Political Institution
260			_aChicago _bUniversity of Chicago Press _c1998
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520			_aFrom the opening decades of the republic when political parties sponsored newspapers to current governmental practices that actively subsidize the collection and dissemination of the news, the press and the government have been far from independent. Unlike those earlier days, however, the news is no longer produced by a diverse range of individual outlets but is instead the result of a collective institution that exercises collective power. In explaining how the news media of today operate as an intermediary political institution, akin to the party system and interest group system, Cook demonstrates how the differing media strategies used by governmental agencies and branches respond to the constitutional and structural weaknesses inherent in a separation-of-powers system. Cook examines the news media's capacity to perform the political tasks that they have inherited and points the way to a debate on policy solutions in order to hold the news media accountable without treading upon the freedom of the press
650			_aJournalism
650			_aPress and politics
650			_aGovernment and the press
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