Echo Chamber Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment [Paperback]

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph Cappella-two of the nation's foremost experts on politics and media-offers a searching analysis of the conservative media establishment, from talk radio to Fox News to the editorial page ofThe Wall Street Journal. Echo Chamberis the first serious account of how the conservative media arose, what it consists of, and how it operates. Jamieson and Cappella find that Limbaugh, Fox News, andThe Wall Street Journalopinion pages create a self-protective enclave for conservatives, shielding them from other information sources and promoting highly negative views toward conservatism's political opponents. A thoughtful and incisive study,Echo Chamberoffers the most authoritative and insightful account of this revolutionary phenomenon and its indelible effect on the American political landscape.

Preface

1. How the Conservative Opinion Media Attack the Democratic Opposition

2. How the Conservative Opinion Media Defend Conservatism

3. Conservative Opinion Media: The Players

4. The Conservative Opinion Media as Opponents of Liberalism and Custodians of the Reagan Narrative

5. Effects of an Echo Chamber

6. Speaking to the Republican Base: An Analysis of Conservative Media's Audience

7. Vetting Candidates for Office

8. Stirring Emotion to Mobilize Engagement

9. Framing and Reframing the Mainstream Media

10. Engendering and Reinforcing Distrust of Mainstream Media

11. Defining and Defending an Insular Interpretive Community

12. Balkanization of Knowledge and Interpretation

13. Distortion and Polarization

14. Conclusion: Echo Chamber: Cause for Concern or Celebration?

Afterward

Notes

Index

Preface
1. How the Conservative Media Attack the Democratic Opposition
2. How the Conservative Opinion Media Defend Conservatism
3. Conservative Opinion Media: The Players
4. The Conservative OpinlÃ&