Political Communication in Congress

In: Political communication, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 119-124

Abstract

A review essay on books by (1) Bill Granstaff, Losing Our Democratic Spirit: Congressional Deliberation and the Dictatorship of Propaganda (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999); (2) Michael W. Shelton, Talk of Power, Power of Talk: The 1994 Health Care Reform Debate and Beyond (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000); (3) Congress Online Project, Congress Online: Assessing and Improving Capitol Hill Web Sites (2002); (4) Congress Online Project, Constituents and Your Web Site: What Citizens Want to See on Congressional Web Sites (2001); (5) Congress Online Project, Email Overlaod in Congress: Managing a Communications Crisis (2001); (6) James A. Thurber & Colton C. Campbell (Eds), Congress and the Internet (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003); (7) Jeremy Zilber & David Niven, Racialized Coverage of Congress: The News in Black and White (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000); & (8) C. Danielle Vinson, Local Media Coverage of Congress and Its Members: Through Local Eyes (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2003).