02249nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139034326 UkCbUP 20180107143416.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110225s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139034326 (ebook) 9780521887670 (hardback) 9780521715676 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda P94.5.I482 U654 2013 070.4/4930482 23 Benson, Rodney, author. Shaping Immigration News : A French-American Comparison / [electronic resource] Rodney Benson. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (296 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Communication, Society and Politics Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s, Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of humanitarianism and public order. In both countries, less commercialized media tend to offer the most in-depth, multi-perspective and critical news. Benson challenges classic liberalism's assumptions about state intervention's chilling effects on the press, suggests costs as well as benefits to the current vogue in personalized narrative news, and calls attention to journalistic practices that can help empower civil society. This book offers new theories and methods for sociologists and media scholars and fresh insights for journalists, policy makers and concerned citizens. Print version: 9780521887670 Communication, Society and Politics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139034326 Cambridge Books Online 236737 236737