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category: Business & Economics
published: Sep 2003
ISBN:9780774810197
publisher: UBC Press

Hidden Agendas

How Journalists Influence the News

by Lydia Miljan & Barry Cooper

tagged: media & communications industries, journalism, communication studies
Description

In our news-hungry society, where CNN is considered a staple of primetime viewing, journalists have become celebrities and often, political proxies. To a large degree, our world is shaped by their commentaries on everything from war to health care to trade. Hidden Agendas: How Journalists Influence the News is a no-holds-barred exposé of how the opinions of reporters decidedly shape the information we consider news.

About the Authors
Lydia Miljan is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Windsor.

Lydia Miljan is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Windsor.
Contributor Notes

Lydia Miljan and Barry Cooper are both professors of Political Science. They teach at the University of Windsor and the University of Calgary, respectively.

Awards
  • Short-listed, Donner Prize, Donner Foundation
Editorial Reviews

Hidden Agendas breaks new ground and expands our understanding of Canada’s media. But be forewarned: Whatever your preconceptions about who’s right, who’s left and who’s wrong, this little book is full of surprises.

— Financial Post

Hidden Agendas lays out the pervasive liberal-left bias in most big-city newsrooms. It should be a wake-up call for reporters and editors who believe themselves to be objective, but aren’t.

— National Post

With care and skill, Miljan and Cooper subject the poisonous debate over media bias to a healthy dose of scientific analysis. All future debate over the media will have to take their research into account. This book shows that bias isn’t just in the eye of the beholder. It’s also in the eyes of journalists, to whom we’re all beholden for our image of reality.

— Bob Lichter, president, Center for Media and Public Affairs, Washington, DC, and author of <EM>The Media Elite: America’s New Powerbrokers</EM>

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