The press on trial crimes and trials as media events
Perhaps no drama catches the interest of the American public more than a spectacular trial. Even though the reporting of a crime may quickly diminish in news value, the trial lingers while drama builds. Although this has become seemingly more pronounced in recent years with the popularity of televis...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Westport, CT :
Greenwood Press
1997.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Contributions to the study of mass media and communications ; no. 51. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31392659*spi |
| Sumario: | Perhaps no drama catches the interest of the American public more than a spectacular trial. Even though the reporting of a crime may quickly diminish in news value, the trial lingers while drama builds. Although this has become seemingly more pronounced in recent years with the popularity of televised trials, public interest in criminal trials was just as high in 1735 when John Peter Zenger defended his right to free speech, or in 1893 when Lizzie Borden was tried for the murder of her father and stepmother. This book tells the stories of sixteen significant trials in American history and thei. |
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| Descripción Física: | xi, 227 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 209-216) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780313019166 |
