[eBook Code] Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press (eBook Code, 1st)

Acknowledgements vi

1 Introduction: facts and democracy 1

2 Six or seven things news can do for democracy 11

3 The US model of journalism: exception or exemplar? 27

4 The invention of the American newspaper as popular art, 1890–1930 40

5 Why democracies need an unlovable press 50

6 The concept of politics in contemporary US journalism 63

7 What’s unusual about covering politics as usual 77

8 The anarchy of events and the anxiety of story telling 88

9 Why conversation is not the soul of democracy 94

10 The trouble with experts – and why democracies need them 108

Notes 126

Index 141