Product Description: This CenterSOLUTIONS(R) Task Cards: Word Problems kit includes 100 individual math problems for fifth-grade students. The math problems encourage success in grade-appropriate math basics such as numerical expressions, place value, operations with multi-digit numbers, decimals, fractions, measurement, and plane geometry...read more

Product Description: In the early twentieth century, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Lippmann said that the presentation of truthful news lies at the heart of democracy. This volume stems from Dan D. Nimmo’s conviction that opinion and policymaking are also significant, interrelated processes within any political system...read more

Product Description: The 2003 war against Iraq was not the first instance of a president taking the nation into foreign conflict assisted by a submissive Congress and national press corps that did not adequately challenge the case for intervention. All foreign U...read more

Modern presidents engage in public leadership through national television addresses, routine speechmaking, and by speaking to local audiences. With these strategies, presidents tend to influence the media's agenda. In fact, presidential leadership of the news media provides an important avenue for indirect presidential leadership of the public, the president's ultimate target audience. Although frequently left out of sophisticated treatments of the public presidency, the media are directly incorporated into this book's theoretical approach and analysis. The authors find that when the public expresses real concern about an issue, such as high unemployment, the president tends to be responsive. But when the president gives attention to an issue in which the public does not have a preexisting interest, he can expect, through the news media, to directly influence public opinion. Eshbaugh-Soha and Peake offer key insights on when presidents are likely to have their greatest leadership successes and demonstrate that presidents can indeed "break through the noise" of news coverage to lead the public agenda.

Winner, 2008 Richard E. Neustadt Award, Presidency Research Group organized section of the American Political Science AssociationPolitical scientists are rarely able to study presidents from inside the White House while presidents are governing, campaigning, and delivering thousands of speeches. It’s even rarer to find one who manages to get officials such as political adviser Karl Rove or presidential counselor Dan Bartlett to discuss their strategies while those strategies are under construction. But that is exactly what Martha Joynt Kumar pulls off in her fascinating new book, which draws on her first-hand reporting, interviewing, and original scholarship to produce analyses of the media and communications operations of the past four administrations, including chapters on George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Kumar describes how today’s White House communications and media operations can be at once in flux and remarkably stable over time. She describes how the presidential Press Office that was once manned by a single presidential advisor evolved into a multilayered communications machine that employs hundreds of people, what modern presidents seek to accomplish through their operations, and how presidents measure what they get for their considerable efforts.Laced throughout with in-depth statistics, historical insights, and you-are-there interviews with key White House staffers and journalists, this indispensable and comprehensive dissection of presidential communications operations will be key reading for scholars of the White House researching the presidency, political communications, journalism, and any other discipline where how and when one speaks is at least as important as what one says.

Product Description: Negotiating in the Press offers a new interpretation of an otherwise dark moment in American journalism. Rather than emphasize the familiar story of lost journalistic freedom during World War I, Joseph R. Hayden describes the press's newfound power in the war's aftermath -- that seminal moment when journalists discovered their ability to help broker peace talks...read more

Citing his own involvement in the case of Valerie Plame, the former editor-in-chief for Time Inc. explains how the issue of confidentiality and anonymous sources has been used as a weapon against the press by the White House to protect government malfeasance.

Citing his own involvement in the case of Valerie Plame, the former editor-in-chief for Time Inc. explains how the issue of confidentiality and anonymous sources has been used as a weapon against the press by the White House to protect government malfeasance.

Product Description: The Freedom of Information Act was signed into law during the last half of the twentieth century to ensure public access to government documents. In this book, Shannon E. Martin details the history that led to the law’s enactment and the resulting discoveries in government repositories over the past fifty years...read more

Citing his own involvement in the case of Valerie Plame, as well as Watergate and the publication of the Pentagon Papers, the former editor-in-chief for Time Inc. explains how the issue of confidentiality and anonymous sources has been used as a weapon against the press by the White House to protect government malfeasance. Simultaneous.

Product Description: In a postmodern age where the media's depictions of reality serve as stand-ins for the real thing for so many Americans, how much government policy is being made on the basis of those mediated realities and on the public reaction to them? When those mediated depictions deviate from the truth of the actual situation, how serious a situation is that? Time and again, both anecdotal evidence and scientific research seem to confirm that the news media often influence government action...read more

The acclaimed political journalist and dean of the Washington Press Corp shares her personal manifesto about the responsibility of the press to provide quality political news coverage and to serve the role as watchdogs of democracy and the public good, arguing that reporters have increasingly failed to meet the challenge. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

A syndicated columnist re-interprets the history of propaganda in the U.S., revealing a long history of presidential administrations who 'spin' war to make it more palatable for the majority of Americans. Reprint.

Product Description: The line dividing public life and private behavior in American politics is more blurred than ever. When it comes to questions about sex, substance abuse and family life, anything goes on the political desk in many newsrooms, including uncorroborated hearsay disguised as news...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ground-breaking in its analysis of the relationship between journalists and sources, Spinning into Control is a useful and colorful introduction to the key issues of contemporary news reporting for students of media/communication and journalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Reporters claim to seek and tell the truth in their news stories, but Paul Weaver maintains that news organizations regularly foster a haze of untruth that obscures the meaning of events and distorts our perception of reality. This distortion, which Weaver terms "a culture of lying", is the result of hidden structural relations, such as the media's need to serve the interests of advertising sponsors, and the "addict/codependent" relationship of reporters to their sources...read more

Product Description: Over the last fifteen years, Stephen Hess has become a leading and much-quoted authority on Washington government and the media. In this volume, he presents a collection of his best essays on the media written over the past decade...read more

Product Description: Observers of media-government relations most often think first of conflicts with the executive branch, yet interactions between Congress and the media have been extensive and varied since the first Washington "correspondents" began sending dispatches from the sessions of Congress...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Here is an inside look at how a Congressional Committee, supported by the Nixon White House, sought to establish control over broadcast news by investigating editorial news judgment. Frank Stanton, legendary President of CBS, refused to produce outtakes from the award-winning documentary, The Selling of the Pentagon, subpoenaed by the Committee in an attempt to condemn the program and CBS...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Argues that the media's preoccupation with the game of politics has made American voters cynical and dissatisfied (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The role of government in determining journalists' ethical decision making.