The American News Media Before and After 11 September 2001

As the field of objectivity and bias has always been §debated in mass media, an analysis of political §newspaper articles before and after the terror §attack at the beginning of the Bush administration §gives a perfect opportunity to study how this §phenomenon was changed by such an event. This book §provides one hundred and forty-five articles dealing §with the Bush agenda and foreign and internal §affairs taken from Republican and Democrat partisan §newspapers. §The reader is introduced into the basics of mass §media and their functions, is also guided through §the development of the national newspaper and is §given the main concepts of objectivity and bias. §Three important American daily papers, The §Washington Times, New York Times and The Washington §Post along with Time magazine are contrasted. The §articles examined cover the first presidential year §of George W. Bush, however, they are considered as §two separated periods. §This book is widely useful to students and lecturers §whose interests are focused on the Bush §administration and also for those who would like to §get an inside view of the political skirmishings in §newpaper articles.