Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics

Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics
ISBN-10
1594519455
ISBN-13
9781594519451
Category
Political Science
Pages
239
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Paradigm Pub
Authors
Anthony R. DiMaggio, Paul Louis Street

Description

Street (independent journalist) and DiMaggio (U.S. and global politics, Illinois State U.) working from the assumption that the Tea Party phenomenon is controlled and financed by the conservative wing of the Republican Party, look at how the media perpetuates the idea that it is a wide-spread movement. In contrast to people who are merely sympathetic to the ideas being pushed, people actively involved in organizing Tea Party events are more likely than the average American to be white, college educated and well off financially, as well as strongly nationalistic and religious, say the authors.

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