Do African-American lives matter to the nation’s press? And if they do, how does the press demonstrate this? These are the driving questions of this book, for which the author employed content analysis of eight U.  Meer

The 2003 war against Iraq was not first instance of president taking nation into foreign conflict assisted by a submissive Congress and national press corps that did not adequately challenge case for intervention.  Meer

The 2003 war against Iraq was not first instance of president taking nation into foreign conflict assisted by a submissive Congress and national press corps that did not adequately challenge case for intervention.  Meer

A History of the American Civil Rights Movement through Newspaper Coverage: The Race Agenda traces the crusade for justice through the lens of major newspaper coverage to reveal the combating sectional press attitudes of the era.  Meer

This book is an analysis of newspaper coverage of the civil-rights movement from 1963 to 1971, focusing on such theoretical concepts as agenda-setting, framing and gatekeeping to discern how newspapers of different regions of the country shaped that narrative.  Meer