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040 _cCUS
082 _a302.23
_bBIL/A
100 _aReader, Bill
245 0 _aAudience fdeedback in the news media /
260 _aNew York:
_bRoutledge,
_c2015.
300 _aVIII,187 p.
505 _a"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."
942 _cWB16