Publications
Publication details [#40800]
Baym, Geoffrey. 2004. Packaging Reality: Structures of Form in US Network News Coverage of Watergate and the Clinton Impeachment. Journalism 5 (3) : 279–299. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study examines the form patterns that structured US network news coverage of Watergate in 1973-74 and the Clinton impeachment of 1998. Investigating in particular the format known to the television news business as the package, it reveals a turn in news form from the typographic to the televisual and takes into accoun the implications of that turn for journalistic authority.