Class and news

Introduction / Don Heider.

Media, class, and power: debunking the myth of a classless society / Deepa Kumar.

Choosing sources: how the press perpetrated the myth of the single mother on welfare / Janet Blank-Libra.

Poor people in the news: images from the journalistic subconscious / Martin Gilens.

Picturing class: mining the field of front-page photographs for keys to accidental communities of memory / Julianne H. Newton ... [et al.].

Class and local TV news / Don Heider and Koji Fuse.

The social stratification potential of tabloid and highbrow newsmagazine programs / Maria Elizabeth Grabe.

Constructing a televisual class: newsmagazines and social class / Jennie Phillips.

Calling class: sports announcers and the culture of poverty / James Rada and K. Tim Wulfemeyer.

"America is a middle-class nation": the presentation of class in the pages of Life / Sheila Webb.

Tales told in two cities: when missing girls are(n't) news / Carol Liebler.

"Trailer park trash": news, ideology, and depictions of the American underclass / Joseph Harry.

The emergence of class consciousness in the American newspaper guild / Bonnie Brennen.

Writing the workers' World Trade Center: an analysis of reportage on Ground Zero in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 / Laura Hapke.

UPS strike coverage and the future of labor in corporate news / Christopher R. Martin.

Good news from a bad neighborhood: urban journalism and community assets / James S. Ettema and Limor Peer.

Class and media influence in Australia / Paul Jones and Michael Pusey.

Television civic journalism and the portrayal of class / David D. Kurpius.

Epilogue / Don Heider.