"Pop quizzes" on the campaign trail journalists, candidates, and the limits of questioning

Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 28-46

  Roth, Andrew L ^a  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Degradation ceremonies; Election campaign coverage; Political news interviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744442765     PISSN: 1081180X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1081180X05276804     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1988. "Culture and Political Crisis: 'Watergate' and Durkheimian Sociology." In Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies, ed. Jeffrey C. Alexander. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2. Bennett, W. Lance. 1981. "Assessing Presidential Character: Degradation Rituals in Political Campaigns." Quarterly Journal of Speech 67:310-21.
3. Carey, James. W. 1998. "Political Ritual on Television: Episodes in the History of Shame, Degradation, and Excommunication." In Media, Ritual and Identity, ed. Tamar Liebes and James Curran. London: Routledge.
4. Clayman, Steven. 1990. "From Talk to Text: Newspaper Accounts of Reporter-Source Interactions." Media, Culture and Society 12(1):79-104.
5. Clayman, Steven. 1992. "Footing in the Achievement of Neutrality: The Case of News Interview Discourse." In Talk at Work:Interaction in Institutional Settings, ed. Paul Drew and John Heritage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Clayman, Steven. 1993. "Reformulating the Question: A Device for Answering/Not Answering Questions in News Interviews and Press Conferences." Text 13(2):159-88.
7. Clayman, Steven, and John Heritage. 2002a. The News Interview: Journalists and Public Figures on the Air. New York: Cambridge University Press.
8. Clayman, Steven and John Heritage. 2002b. "Questioning Presidents: Journalistic Deference and Adversarialness in the Press Conferences of U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan." Journal of Communication 52(4):749-75.
9. Clayman, Steven, and Jack Whalen. 1988/1989. "When the Medium Becomes the Message: The Case of the Rather-Bush Encounter." Research on Language and Social Interaction 22:241-72.
10. Dayan, David, and Elihu Katz. 1992. Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
11. Drew, Paul, and John Heritage. 1992. "Analyzing Talk at Work: An Introduction." In Talk at Work: Interaction in Institutional Settings, ed. Paul Drew and John Heritage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
12. Entman, Robert M. 1989. Democracy without Citizens: Media and the Decay of American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.
13. Garfinkel, Harold. 1956. "Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies." American Journal of Sociology 61(5):420-24.
14. Greatbatch, David. 1986. "Aspects of Topical Organisation in News Interviews: The Use of Agenda Shifting Procedures by Interviewees." Media, Culture and Society 8:441-55.
15. Heritage, John. 1985. "Analyzing News Interviews: Aspects of the Production of Talk for an Overhearing Audience." In Handbook of Discourse Analysis, vol. 3, ed. T. A. Dijk. New York: Academic Press.
16. Heritage, John. 2002. "The Limits of Questioning: Negative Interrogatives and Hostile Question Content." Journal of Pragmatics 34(10-11):1427-46.
17. Heritage, John, and David Greatbatch. 1991. "On the Institutional Character of Institutional Talk: The Case of News Interviews." In Talk and Social Structure, ed. Deirdre Boden and Don H. Zimmerman. Berkeley: University of California Press.
18. Heritage, John, and Andrew L. Roth. 1995. "Grammar and Institution: On Questions and Questioning in the Broadcast News Interview." Research on Language and Social Interaction 28(1):1-60.
19. Heritage, John, and Marja-Leena Sorjonen. 1994. "Constituting and Maintaining Activities across Sequences: And-Prefacing as a Feature of Question Design." Language in Society 23:1-29.
20. Koppel, Ted, and Kyle Gibson. 1996. Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television. New York: Crown.
21. Patterson, Thomas E. 1993. Out of Order. New York: Random House.
22. Roth, Andrew L. 1998. "Who Makes the News? Descriptions of Television News Interviewees' Public Personae." Media, Culture & Society 20(1):79-107.
23. Roth, Andrew L. 2002. "Social Epistemology in the Broadcast News Interview."Language in Society 31(3):355-81.
24. Schegloff, Emanuel A. 1988/1989. "From Interview to Confrontation: Observations on the Bush/Rather Encounter." Research on Language and Social Interaction 22:215-40.
25. Schudson, Michael. 1978. Discovering the News. New York: Basic Books.
26. Schudson, Michael. 1995. "Question Authority: A History of the News Interview." In The Power of News. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
27. Tuchman, Gaye. 1972. "Objectivity as Strategic Ritual." American Journal of Sociology 77:660-79.
28. Tuchman, Gaye. 1978. Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality. New York: Free Press.
29. Zelizer, Barbie. 1990. "Achieving Journalistic Authority through Narrative." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 7:366-76.