Download or read book Congress Vs the Bureaucracy written by Mordecai Lee and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government bureaucracy is something Americans have long loved to hate. Yet despite this general antipathy, some federal agencies have been wildly successful in cultivating the people’s favor. Take, for instance, the U.S. Forest Service and its still-popular Smokey Bear campaign. The agency early on gained a foothold in the public’s esteem when President Theodore Roosevelt championed its conservation policies and Forest Service press releases led to favorable coverage and further goodwill. Congress has rarely approved of such bureaucratic independence. In Congress vs. the Bureaucracy, political scientist Mordecai Lee—who has served as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill and as a state senator—explores a century of congressional efforts to prevent government agencies from gaining support for their initiatives by communicating directly with the public. Through detailed case studies, Lee shows how federal agencies have used increasingly sophisticated publicity techniques to muster support for their activities—while Congress has passed laws to counter those PR efforts. The author first traces congressional resistance to Roosevelt’s campaigns to rally popular support for the Panama Canal project, then discusses the Forest Service, the War Department, the Census Bureau, and the Department of Agriculture. Lee’s analysis of more recent legislative bans on agency publicity in the George W. Bush administration reveals that political battles over PR persist to this day. Ultimately, despite Congress’s attempts to muzzle agency public relations, the bureaucracy usually wins. Opponents of agency PR have traditionally condemned it as propaganda, a sign of a mushrooming, self-serving bureaucracy, and a waste of taxpayer dollars. For government agencies, though, communication with the public is crucial to implementing their missions and surviving. In Congress vs. the Bureaucracy, Lee argues these conflicts are in fact healthy for America. They reflect a struggle for autonomy that shows our government’s system of checks and balances to be alive and working well.
Download or read book The Voice of Government written by Ray Eldon Hiebert and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1968 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Television News and Cold War Propaganda 1947 1960 written by Nancy Bernhard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How US government and media collaborated in their dissemination of Cold War propaganda.
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Download or read book The Diplomatic Persuaders written by John D. Lee and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1968 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on talks presented in the spring of 1967 at a series of seminars offered by the Washington Journalism Center and the American University, Washington, D.C.
Download or read book Great Lakes Basin Library Interim Bibliography Title arrangement April 1969 written by Great Lakes Basin Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Government Press Connection written by Stephen Hess and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys press relations with the federal government, examines the way official press offices prepare and conduct briefings, and considers criticisms concerning the government's control of information.
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Download or read book Agenda Setting written by David Protess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of the news media in defining the important issues of the day, also known as the agenda-setting influence of mass communication, has received widespread attention over the past 20 years. Since the publication of McCombs and Shaw's seminal empirical study, more than one hundred journal articles and monographs have appeared. This collection exemplifies the major phases of research on agenda-setting: tests of the basic hypothesis, contingent conditions affecting the strength of this influence, the natural history of public issues, mass media influence on public policy, and the role of external sources from the president to public relations staffs on the news agenda.
Download or read book Catalog of the Communications Library written by University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Library and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Public Relations written by Mordecai Lee and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much maligned in the past as wasteful and self-serving, government public relations provides several distinct services that can be used to advance the substantive mission of an agency in ways that save money, time, and effort. In the same manner as budgeting, HR, strategic planning, and performance assessment, public relations must be included in t
Download or read book Catalog of the Communications Library University of Illinois written by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Department Press and Pressure Groups written by William O. Chittick and published by New York : Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1970 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mass Media and the Law written by David G. Clark and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1970 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers and articles collected in this volume examine the relationship between government, business conglomerates, and the mass media and discuss the effect of this relationship on the flow of information. Separate sections are devoted to: the "right to know"; the effect of media barons on the flow of news; the "right of access"; the sometimes conflicting guarantees of the First and the Sixth Amendments; invasion of privacy; libel; obscenity; the impact of such Federal agencies as the Post Office, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Federal Communications Commission; and copyright laws. At the end of each section relevant books, articles, and court decisions are noted. In the concluding section of the book, the editors summarize their position by stating that the changing nature of the communications process demands that the law must not only protect the media's right of access to information, but must also forbid the arbitrary denial of space in which to present divergent opinions.
Download or read book To Serve the People written by John R. Johannes and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
