TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reader, Bill
TI  - Audience fdeedback in the news media
SN  - 1138775339
U1  - 302.23 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
N1  - "Audience comments, the spice of history --
"Packets of letters": audience comments before freedom of the press --
"A sure sign of liberty, and a cause of it": audience feedback and the emergence of the free press --
Commodification of comments: professional bias and gatekeeping of letters to the editor --
Professional journalism's transformation of "a quaint tradition" --
Concerning "crackpots": the media's love-hate relationship with feedback --
"In my opinion ... ": commenting as individual agency --
"We, the people ... ": commenting as collective action --
Conclusion: Gatekeeping in an age without fences."
ER  -