How Australia Decides : Election Reporting and the Media (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Election reporting in the 2000s; Part I. Political News Audiences and Outlets: 2. The political news audience; 3. The elite public sphere; 4. The popular public sphere; 5. Elections and audiences; Part II. Where Does Election News Come From and What is it About?: 6. Creating election news: journalists; 7. The stars of the show: politicians and campaigning; 8. Who controls the news agenda? 9. 'From the campaign trail': the framing of election news; Part III. Elections in Mediated Times: 10. News, political reporting and the Internet; 11. Bias; 12. News, the public and democracy.