Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulting book, "News That Matters", now hailed as a clas[...]

Media Politics encourages students to take a critical look at how politicians use the media to get elected, stay in power and achieve policy goals, and how the media influences American politics. Drawing on recent research, including the work of author Shanto Iyengar, Media Politics is the most curr[...]