books.google.co.in - Some say it's simply information, mirroring the world. Others believe it's propaganda, promoting a partisan view. But news, Michael Schudson tells us, is really both and neither; it is a form of culture, complete with its own literary and social conventions and powerful in ways far more subtle and complex...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_Power_of_the_News.html?id=jr9V0ku5rzoC&q=participation&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Power of the News
