Good Intentions Make Bad News outlines how campaign journalism has evolved during the last twenty-five years, concluding that media partisanship plays a disproportionate role in determining electoral outcomes. S. Robert Lichter and Richard Noyes, experts in the relationship between mass communications and the political process, argue that unbalanced media coverage obscures the issues most relevant to constituents while it dramatically limits the range of legitimate political debate. The authors discuss the significance of alternative forms of political communication and provide suggestions for the 1996 elections. This in-depth study is sure to be a provocative and controversial book for scholars of political science, campaign strategy, presidential politics, and mass communications.
- ISBN10 0847682730
- ISBN13 9780847682737
- Publish Date 30 October 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 May 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
- Edition 2nd Edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English