Local Media Coverage of Congress and Its Members: Through Local Eyes

by Danielle Vinson, C. Danielle Vinson

Vinson (Furman U.) examines current local media coverage of Congress including patterns in the amount of coverage Congress receives, attention given to individual local members of Congress, the substantive content of coverage, the evaluative content of congressional coverage, election year coverage, the degree to which the media act as watchdogs over government, and the consequences of the current state of local congressional coverage. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

240 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2002