1. Politics and the Media -- 2. Historical Development of the Political Role of the Press. Party and Press / Culver H. Smith. The Rise of the Penny Press / Michael Schudson. 3. The Civics and Anti-Civics of Muckraking / Thomas C. Leonard -- Media Culture. 4. The Media Elite / S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman and Linda S. Lichter. 5. Covering the Abortion Debate / David Shaw. 6. The Coming Battle for the Media / William Rusher. 7. Who Controls the News? / Michael Parenti. 8. The Independent Reporter / James Boylan. 9. The American Journalist in the 1990s: A Preliminary Report of Key Findings from a 1992 Survey of U.S. Journalists / David H. Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit -- Government Regulation of the Press. 10. Veto Message / Ronald Reagan. 11. Fairness Doctrine Ensures That Viewers Receive All Sides of Controversial Issues / John Dingell. 12. Communications Deregulation / Jeremy Tunstall. 13. Mass Communications Policy: Where We Are and Where We Are Going / Henry Geller -- Mass Political Behavior. 14. The People's Choice / Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson and and Hazel Gaudet. 15. Processing the News: How People Tame the Information Tide / Doris A. Graber. 16. News That Matters / Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder. 17. The Spiral of Silence / Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann. 18. News Verdicts, Debates, and Presidential Campaigns / James B. Lemert, William R. Elliott, James M. Bernstein, William L. Rosenberg and Karl J. Nestvold. 19. The Mass Media Election / Thomas E. Patterson -- Campaigns and Elections. 20. The Press Rejects a Candidate / Joshua Meyrowitz. 21. Campaign News Strategies / F. Christopher Arterton. 22. 30-Second Politics / Montague Kern. 23. The Effects of Polling in Elections / Diana Owen. 24. Why Our Media Miss the Message / Gary Hart. 25. Private Lives: How Relevant? / Michael Kinsley -- Political Institutions and Organizations. 26. Early Presidential-Press Relations / Samuel Kernell. 27. Conflict and Cooperation / Michael B. Grossman and Martha Joynt Kumar. 28. A Presidential Press Conference. 29. Boss Tube Replaces Boss Tweed / Hedrick Smith. 30. Why Is Television So Important in Congress? / Stephen Hess. 31. Outsider and Insider Strategies: Can Complementarity Work? / Timothy E. Cook. 32. The Supreme Court Press Corps / Elliot Slotnick. 33. A Justice Critiques the Press / Antonin Scalia. 34. The Government/Press Connection / 35. What's Good for Mobil Oil / Jarol B. Manheim. 36. Resource-Poor Groups / Edie Goldenberg -- Public Policy-Making. 37. The Searchlight / Walter Lippmann. 38. Building Policy Agendas / David L. Protess, Fay Lomax Cook, Jack C. Doppelt, James S. Ettema, Margaret T. Gordon, Donna R. Leff and Peter Miller. 39. Dispelling the Leak Mystique / Martin Linsky. 40. Foreign Policy on Deadline / Lloyd N. Cutler. 41. Ten Days That Shook the White House / Daniel Schorr. 42. Persian Gulf War Rules for Journalists / U.S. Department of Defense. 43. The Censored War / Ad Hoc Media Group. 44. The Pool / William Boot. 45. The News Media and National Security / Richard R. Burt -- The Future: Technology and Democracy. 46. The Use of Satellites in Politics / Richard Armstrong. 47. Spying on the Government: The Media, Remote-Sensing Satellites, and U.S. National Security Policy / Richard Davis. 48. Toward an Electronic Commonwealth / Jeffrey B. Abramson, F. Christopher Arterton and Gary R. Orren. 49. Improving Journalism by Enhancing Citizenship / Robert M. Entman