@article{ref1,
title="Television News and the Nation: The End?",
journal="Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science",
year="2009",
author="Liebes, T. and Blondheim, M.",
volume="625",
number="1",
pages="182-195",
abstract="The golden age of television news gave a large majority of otherwise diverse Americans a unified, seamless, and clear-cut image of their nation, its central players, and its agenda. Carefully scheduled, edited, sequenced, and branded, heard and seen simultaneously across America, it provided a pretense of order to the chaos that is news. The permanence and stability of the nation, as expressed in a complex way by TV news, provided Americans with an all-important sense of existential security experienced on an unarticulated emotional level. Today, a disjointed news environment is crushing the nature of network news as a transitional object. Television news no longer reassures viewers by connecting them to a surmountable world out there but carries them on a loop from themselves to themselves.<p />",
language="",
issn="0002-7162",
doi="10.1177/0002716209338574",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716209338574"
}