Nightly Horrors: Crisis Coverage by Television Network News

by Dan D. Nimmo, James E. Combs

Nimmo, Dan D., Combs, James E.

216 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1985

About the author

Dan Nimmo was considered one of the most productive and influential scholars in the field of political communication. He taught political science and journalism as a professor in the College of Communications at the University of Tennessee. Over the last 50 years he produced, with several co-authors and coeditors, more than 35 volumes, as well as countless book chapters and convention papers on political communication. A distinctive mark of his work was the enormously wide range of concepts and interpretive tools he was able to draw on to show new facets of political communication. These ranged from the psychological foundations of political images, to the rising importance of political commentary and punditry in the media, to the many forms of political communication outside of campaigns such as news coverage of scandals, disasters and even popular films. He died in 2004 at the age of 71.