Justices and Journalists (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521879255)

Justices and Journalists examines whether justices are becoming more publicity-conscious and why that might be happening. The book discusses the motives of justices "going public" and details their recent increased number of television and print interviews and amount of press coverage of their speeches. The book describes the interactions justices have (and have had) with the journalists who cover them. These interactions typically are not discussed publicly by justices or journalists. The book explains why justices care about press and public relations, how they employ external strategies to affect press portrayals of themselves and their institution, and how and why journalists participate in that interaction. Drawing on the papers of Supreme Court justices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book examines these interactions over the history of the Court. It also includes a content analysis of print and broadcast media coverage of Supreme Court justices covering a 40-year period from 1968 to 2007.

Author: Richard Davis
ISBN-10: 0521879256
ISBN-13: 9780521879255
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2011
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2011