Once again, Doris Graber brings readers the most thought-provoking and recent scholarship about the actual power of the media in the real world of politics. With approximately 35 essays, half of them new to this edition, the selections reflect the latest changes in American politics, in American media platforms, and in the interactions between political actors and journalists.

Examining these changes and assessing their political significance, this new sixth edition includes coverage of:

• the influence of non-professional citizen journalists;
• a look ahead at media development in the next decade; 
• the public’s growing disdain for the media and its effect on the media’s influence;
• old and new media’s impact on political participation;
• media and the 2008 presidential election; 
• interest groups’ power to control news selection;
• media happenings at the state and local levels;
• lobbyists’ efforts to derail updates to media laws and regulations.

With approximately 35 essays, half of them new to this edition, the selections in the new edition of Media Power in Politics reflect the latest changes in American politics, in American media platforms, and in the interactions between political actors and journalists. The book also includes coverage of:

• the influence of non-professional citizen journalists;
• a look ahead at media development in the next decade;
• the public’s growing disdain for the media and its effect on the media’s influence;
• old and new media’s impact on political participation;
• media and the 2008 presidential election;
• interest groups’ power to control news selection;
• media happenings at the state and local levels;
• lobbyists’ efforts to derail updates to media laws and regulations.

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PART I. PUTTING MASS MEDIA EFFECTS IN PERSPECTIVE

1. How Information Shapes Political Institutions, Bruce Bimber

NEW! 2. Documenting the Persuasive Power of the News Media, Jonathan McDonald Ladd and Gabriel S. Lenz

3. Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press, Michael Schudson

NEW! 4. Political Communication - Old and New Media Relationships, Michael Gurevitch, Stephen Coleman, and Jay G. Blumler

NEW! 5. Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy, Alex S. Jones

NEW! 6. What Amateur Journalism Means for International Affairs, Steven Livingston, Kaye Sweetser Tramell and David D. Perlmutter

PART II. SHAPING THE POLITICAL AGENDA AND PUBLIC OPINION

7. What Moves Public Opinion? Benjamin I. Page, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Glenn R. Dempsey

NEW! 8. Disdaining the Media: The American Public's Changing Attitudes toward the News, Paul Gronke and Timothy Cook

9. How Soft News Brings Policy Issues to the Inattentive Public, Matthew A. Baum

10. News Coverage Effects on Public Opinion about Crime, Frank D. Gilliam Jr. and Shanto Iyengar

NEW! 11. Wanted, Dead or Alive: Media Frames, Frame Adoption, and Support for the War in Afghanistan, Jill A. Edy and Patrick C. Meirick

NEW! 12. Audience Fragmentation and Political Inequality in the Post-Broadcast Media Environment, Markus Prior

PART III. INFLUENCING ELECTION OUTCOMES

NEW! 13. News and the Visual Framing of Elections, Maria Elizabeth Grabe and Erik Page Bucy

NEW! 14. Learning about the Candidates, Darrell M. West

15. The Miscast Institution, Thomas E. Patterson

NEW! 16. New Media and the Revitalisation of Politics, Rachel Gibson

NEW! 17. Electing the President 2008: The Insiders’ View, Nicolle Wallace and Anita Dunn

18. Open Season: How the News Media Cover Presidential Campaigns in the Age of Attack Journalism, Larry J. Sabato

PART IV. CONTROLLING MEDIA POWER: POLITICAL ACTORS VERSUS THE PRESS

19. The Struggle over Shaping the News, Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter

NEW! 20. Going Public as Political Strategy: The Bush Administration, an Echoing Press, and Passage of the Patriot Act, David Domke, Erica S. Graham, Kevin Coe, Sue Lockett John, and Ted Coopman

NEW! 21. Manipulating the Message in the U.S. Congress, Patrick J. Sellers

22. Strategies of the American Civil Rights Movement, Doug McAdam

NEW! 23. The Al Jazeera Effect: How the New Global Media Are Reshaping World Politics, Philip Seib

NEW! 24. A Symbiotic Relationship: Bloggers and Journalists, Richard Davis

PART V. GUIDING PUBLIC POLICIES

NEW! 25. The Politics of Uncertainty: Lobbyists and Propaganda in Early Twentieth-Century America, Christopher M. Loomis

26. Mediating the Public’s Influence on Foreign Policy, Robert M. Entman

27. The Real War Will Never Get on Television: An Analysis of Casualty Imagery, Sean Aday

NEW! 28. Local Media, Public Opinion, and State Legislative Policies: Agenda Setting at the State Level, Yue Tan and David H. Weaver

29. The Soap Opera Path to Health Policy Goals, May G. Kennedy, Ann O’Leary, Vicki Beck, Katrina Pollard, and Penny Simpson

NEW! 30. End of Television and Foreign Policy, Monroe E. Price

PART VI. REGULATING AND MANIPULATING MEDIA EFFECTS

NEW! 31. What Makes a Communications Regulator Independent and Why It Matters, Irene Wu

32. Communications Policy and the Public Interest, Patricia Aufderheide

33. The Watchdog Role of the Press, W. Lance Bennett and William Serrin

34. Terrorism, Censorship, and the First Amendment, Doris A. Graber

NEW! 35. The News Shapers: Strategic Communication as a Third Force in Newsmaking, Jarol B. Manheim

NEW! 36. The Internet and Public Policy, Helen Z. Margetts

In Media Power in Politics, Doris Graber has assembled a first rate collection of chapters that keeps readers abreast of the rapidly changing media environment. Students will find this volume interesting and up to date. Instructors will enjoy the book because the chapters highlight important findings in the field of mass media research. - Jennifer Jerit, Florida State University

A creative collection of articles that is guaranteed to update and stimulate researchers and students alike. Graber has done a superb job of separating insight from hyperbole. - Samuel Popkin, University of California-San Diego

Once again, Doris Graber has assembled a powerful combination of classic and contemporary literature on media and politics. True to form, Graber continues to incorporate cutting edge research into this reader, including studies of the constantly evolving “new media” landscape. This book is essential not only to students of political communication but also to scholars interested in the latest research developments. - Todd Belt, University of Hawai’i at Hilo

Doris A. Graber is professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has written and edited numerous articles and books on the media and public opinion, including Mass Media and American Politics, Eighth Edition, The Politics of News: The News of Politics, Second Edition, The Power of Communication: Managing Information in Public Organizations, and Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age, which won the 2003 Goldsmith Book Prize. This award is given by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.