Cycles of Spin: Strategic Communication in the U, Patrick Sellers, Very Good

Cycles of SpinStrategic Communication in the U.S. Congress\nAuthor(s): Patrick Sellers\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521135801, 978-0521135801\nSynopsis\nHow do politicians try to shape their news coverage? Sellers examines strategic communication campaigns in the [url] Congress. He argues that these campaigns create cycles of spin: leaders create messages, rank-and-file legislators decide whether to promote those messages, journalists decide whether to cover the messages, and any coverage feeds back to influence the policy process. These four stages are closely related; decisions at one stage influence those at another. Sellers uses diverse evidence, from participant observation and press secretary interviews, to computerized content analysis and vector auto regression. The result is a comprehensive and unprecedented examination of politicians' promotional campaigns and journalists' covera.