Creating Reality: How Television News Distorts Events

<jats:p> Creating Reality is one of a group of recent books motivated by the perception that the increasing power of television news in defining the reality for the American public is a crucial social issue. The well-documented dependency of the public on TV news for information about events in the world, and the credibility with which the audience regard this coverage, have drawn a number of authors' attention to that group of people who act in their various journalistic capacities as the information gatekeepers of the nation and to the process of news production. </jats:p>