Reader, Bill,  1970- <br/><br/>
Audience feedback in the news media  [electronic resource] / 
Bill Reader. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2015. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 187 p.) 
 - Routledge research in journalism ;  11 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Audience comments, the spice of history -- "Packets of letters": audience comments before freedom of the press -- "A sure sign of liberty, and a cause of it": audience feedback and the emergence of the free press -- Commodification of comments: professional bias and gatekeeping of letters to the editor -- Professional journalism's transformation of "a quaint tradition" -- Concerning "crackpots": the media's love-hate relationship with feedback -- "In my opinion ...": commenting as individual agency -- "We, the people ...": commenting as collective action -- Conclusion: Gatekeeping in an age without fences. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781315773858 (ebook : PDF) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Journalism--Public opinion.<br/>Mass media--Public opinion.<br/>Press--Public opinion.