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The Media Elite

THE MEDIA ELITE

America's New Powerbrokers

S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman, and Linda S. Lichter

A Smith College political science professor and two research associates from Columbia's Research Insitute on International Change interviewed 240 journalists and gave them the Thematic Apperception Test. As one might expect, the TAT finds these journalists from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, among others to be urban, nonreligious, and liberal. They, not surprisingly, "subconsciously structure social reality" and search for and find "abuses of power."

Hastings House

ISBN: 0-8038-9350-7

Trade paperback, $12.95

Editorial & Persuasive Writing

EDITORIAL AND PERSUASIVE WRITING

Opinion Functions of the News Media

Second Edition

Harry W. Stonecipher

The growing complexity of news today makes its interpretations of the issues of increasing importance to readers and viewers.

This distinguished book discusses and illustrates every aspect of print and electronic editorial writing. It is both a practical instruction book, dealing with the various opinion functions of the news media, as well as a theoretical and analytical examination of the role of the news media as persuaders.

Hastings House

ISBN: 0-8038-9317-5

$24.00, trade paperback

Mass Media & The Supreme Court

MASS MEDIA AND THE SUPREME COURT

The Legacy of the Warren Years

4th Edition

Dr. Kenneth S. Devol

A newly aroused interest in the Supreme Court emerged buring the 1960s — and continued into the early 1970s — largely because of the Justices' willingness to speak out on a series of First Amendment questions. With the democratic concept of a majority rule as a foundation, the Warren Court turned its attention to the protection of minority rights, and included among these was freedom of expression — freedom to profess unorthodox and unpopular views.

The Warren Court undertook questions of obscenity, motion pictire censorship, libel, right of privacy and trial by television — questions largely ignored prior to the 16 years of the Warren era. This new legal activism increases the importance of the Court to those interested in the mass media, political science, sociology and other disciplines devoted to the changing patterns of our social fabric.

Hastings House

ISBN: 0-8038-9305-1

Paperback, $30.00

Land of the Ascending Dragon

LAND OF THE ASCENDING DRAGON

REDISCOVERING VIETNAM

Photographs by Steve Raymer

Text by Paul Martin

Introduction by Jack Smith

Three Vietnam veterans — a writer, a photographer, and a television correspondent — rediscover this country of captivating beauty and fascinating cultural treasures. National Georgraphic Traveler editor Paul Martin travels the length of this once embattled land, from colonial-flavored Hanoi to scenic Halong Bay, the old imperial capital of Hue, historic Danang, Nha Trang, Dalat, and finally Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. Award-winning photographer Steve Raymer contributes 140 arresting photographs. ABC News correspondent Jack Smith remembers his fallen comrades of the 1st Air Cavalry Division.

"I hope any American who is still disturbed by memories of the war we did not win will see this book." — Senator John McCain

Gates & Bridges

ISBN: 0-8038-9396-5

Trade paperback, $32.00