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Politics and the Press
Bibliography

Updated October 2000

Online Resources
Books

ONLINE RESOURCES

News Coverage (Broadcast / Online)

CNN/AllPolitics
http://cnn.com/
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/
CBS News
http://cbsnews.cbs.com/
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/
Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/
PBS NewsHour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
NPR
http://www.npr.org/
C-Span: Campaign 2000
http://www.c-span.org/

News Coverage (Print / Online)

The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/
Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/
CQ's Campaigns & Elections Magazine
http://www.campaignline.com/
The Hill
http://www.hillnews.com/
Roll Call
http://www.rollcall.com/
Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/


Campaign Websites

Republican National Committee
http://rnc.org/
George W. Bush
http://georgewbush.com/
Democratic National Committee
http://democrats.org/
Al Gore
http://algore2000.com/
Ralph Nader
http://www.votenader.org/
Pat Buchanan
http://gopatgo.org

Election Resources

Vote Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org/
Web, White & Blue
http://www.webwhiteblue.org/
Politics.com
http://www.politics.com/
Voter.com
http://www.voter.com
ElectionSearch 2000
http://www.electionsearch2000.org/
Center for Responsive Politics: Totals Raised
http://opensecrets.org/
2000elect/index/AllCands.htm
FECInfo (publicdisclosure.org)
http://www.tray.com/fecinfo/
Politics1
http://www.politics1.com/
League of Women Voters
http://www.lwv.org/
Campaign 2000 (Council on Foreign Relations)
http://www.foreignpolicy2000.org/

Poynter.org

Election 2000
http://poynter.org/election2000/
Poynter's Campaign/Election Resource File
http://poynter.org/research/elect.htm
Poynter's Election Handbook
http://poynter.org/pub/Elect/EHindex.htm


Government Websites

White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
U.S. Senate
http://www.senate.gov/
House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/
Federal Election Commission
http://www.fec.gov/

Additional Resources

GovWire.com
http://www.govwire.com/
Project for Excellence in Journalism
http://www.journalism.org/electionfeb.html
Committee of Concerned Journalists
http://www.journalism.org/epolitics.html
RTNDA Political Coverage Resources
http://rtnda.org/resources/politicso.html
CJR: "Ten Ideas for Better Coverage"
http://www.cjr.org/year/99/6/10ideas.asp
The Vanishing Voter (Shorenstein Center)
http://www.vanishingvoter.org/
Campaign Finance Information Center (IRE)
http://campaignfinance.org/
Stateline
http://www.stateline.org/
Freedom Channel
http://www.freedomchannel.com/

History Websites

PBS: The American President
http://www.americanpresident.org/

Newseum: On the Campaign Trail
http://www.newseum.org/everyfouryears/

Presidents of the United States
http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/
Inaugural Addresses
http://www.bartleby.com/124/index.html
Library of Congress: American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
Presidential Libraries
http://metalab.unc.edu/lia/president/

BOOKS

Barber, James David. The Pulse of Politics:
Electing Presidents in the Media Age.

New York: Norton, 1980.

Cavanaugh, John William. Media Effects on Voters.
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995.

Cook, Timothy E. Governing With the News,
The News Media as a Political Institution.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Crouse, Timothy. The Boys on the Bus.
New York: Random House, 1973.

Davis, Richard. New Media in American Politics.
Boulder: Westview, 1997.

Diamond, Edwin and Robert A. Silverman.
White House to Your House:
Media and Politics in Virtual America.

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.

Graber, Doris A., et al., eds.
The Politics of News: The News of Politics.
Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998.

Iyengar, Shanto and Richard Reeves, eds.
Do the Media Govern? Politicians, Voters,
and Reporters in America.

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997.

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. Dirty Politics:
Deception, Distraction and Democracy.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Kaid, Lyda Lee and Dianne Bystrom, eds.
The Electronic Election:
Perspectives on the 1996 Campaign Communication.

Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.

Leonard, Thomas C. The Power of the Press:
The Birth of American Political Reporting.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Maltese, John Anthony. Spin Control: The White House Office
of Communications and the Management of Presidential News.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Patterson, Thomas F. Out of Order.
New York: Knopf, 1993.

Plissner, Martin. The Control Room:
How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections.

New York: Free Press, 1999.

Reinsch, J. Leonard. Getting Elected:
From Radio and Roosevelt to Television and Reagan.

New York: Hippocrene Books, 1988.

Ritchie, Donald A. Press Gallery:
Congress and the Washington Correspondents.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Rosenstiel, Tom. Strange Bedfellows: How Television
and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics.

New York: Hyperion, 1993.

Rozell, Mark J. The Press and the Bush Presidency.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.

Sabato, Larry J. Feeding Frenzy:
How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics.

New York: Free Press, 1991.

Schudson, Michael. Watergate in American Memory:
How We Remember, Forget and Reconstruct the Past.

New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Smoller, Fedric T. The Six O'Clock Presidency:
A Theory of Presidential Press Relations in the Age of Televison.

New York: Praeger, 1990.

Taylor, Paul. See How They Run:
Electing the President in an Age of Mediaocracy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Tebbel, John and Sara Miles Watts. The Press and the Presidency:
From George Washington to Ronald Reagan.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Walsh, Kenneth T. Feeding the Beast:
The White House Versus the Press.

New York: Random House, 1996.


     
 
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