Recommended Reading
Want to read more on satirical news? Here are some books I found interesting.
- A Friendship: The Letters of Dan Rowan and John D. MacDonald, 1967-1974. NY: Random House, 1986.
- Arber, Edward, ed. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640, Vol. III. London, 1875-94.
- Axel, Madsen. 60 Minutes: The Power and the Politics of America's Most Popular TV News Show. Dodd, Mead and Company: New York City, 1984.
- Bakhtin, Mikhail M. The Dialogic Imagination. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
- ___. Rabelais and His World. Trans. Helene Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.
- Baym, Geoffrey. From Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010.
- Benchley, Robert. “What does it mean?” In The Benchley Roundup. Ed. Nathaniel Benchley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
- Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 4. Oxford 1765-1769.
- Blumer, Herbert. “Society as Symbolic Interaction.” In Human Behavior and Social Process: An Interactionist Approach. Ed. Arnold M. Rose. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1962.
- Bourdieu, Pierre. On Television. New York: The New Press, 1998.
- Botein, Stephen. Mr. Zenger’s Malice and Falsehood. Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society Facsimilies, 1985.
- Brant, Irving. The Bill of Rights – Its Origins and Meaning. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co.,1965.
- Brucker, Herbert. Freedom of information. New York: Macmillan Co, 1949.
- Carpenter, Humphrey. That Was Satire, That Was: Beyond the Fringe, the Establishment Club, “Private Eye,” and “That Was the Week That Was.” New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.
- Castleman, Henry and Walter J. Podrazik. Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television (The Television Series). Syracuse University Press, 2004.
- Chafee, Zechariah. Freedom of Speech. New York: Harcourt, Brace And Howe, 1920.
- Cohen, Joshua. “Democracy and Liberty.” In Deliberative Democracy, ed. John Elster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998: 185-231.
- Davis, Murray S. What's so Funny?: The Comic Conception of Culture and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
- Davis, Richard and Diana Owen. New Media and American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Defoe, Daniel. A Review of the British Nation. Vol VIII. 1711.
- Demers, David. Dictionary of Mass Communication and Media Research: A Guide for Students, Scholars and Professionals. (Spokane: Marquette, 2005).
- Dion, Don and Paul Provenza. Satiristas: Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs & Vulgarians. New York: Harpercollins, 2010.
- Douglas, Mary. “Jokes.” In Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology. London: Routledge, 1979.
- Erickson, Hal. From Beautiful Downtown Burbank: A Critical History of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Jefferson, N.C.: Mcfarland & Company, 2000.
- Eastman, Max. The Sense of Humor. New York: Scribners, 1921.
- Elster, John. Deliberative Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Fearon, James. “Deliberation as Discussion.” In Deliberative Democracy. Ed. John Elster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998: 44-68.
- Franklin, Benjamin. “Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County.” In The Paxton Papers. Ed. John R. Dunbar. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1957, 55–76.
- Fuller, Jack. News Values: Ideas for an Information Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- Goodman, Matthew. The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
- Gray, Jonathan, Jeffrey Jones, and Ethan Thompson. Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
- Griffin, Dustin. Satire: A Critical Reintroduction. Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
- Harte, William. An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad. Los Angeles: Clark Memorial Library, 1968.
- Hall, Kermit. Major Problems in American Constitutional History. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1992.
- Highet, Gilbert. Anatomy of Satire. New York: Princeton University Press, 1971.
- Hilmes, Michele, ed. NBC: America's Network. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
- Hodgart, Matthew. Satire: Origins and Principles. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009.
- Johnson, James. “Arguing for Deliberation: Some Skeptical Considerations.” In Deliberative Democracy. Ed. John Elster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998: 161-184.
- Jones, Jeffrey P. Entertaining Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
- Katz, Stanley N. Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963.
- Keller, Morton. The Art and Politics of Thomas Nast. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968.
- Kercher, Stephen E. Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Levy, Leonard Williams. Legacy of Suppression: Freedom of Speech and Press in Early American History. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
- Long, Scott. “The Political Cartoon: Journalism's Strongest Weapon.” The Quill 50 (1962): 56, 57.
- McChesney, Robert W. and Mike Nichols. The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again. Philadelphia: Nation Books, 2010.
- McChesney, Robert W. The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas. London: Monthly Review Press, 2008.
- Meiklejohn, Alexander. Free Speech and its Relation to Self-Government. Hoboken, NJ: Kennikat Press, 1972.
- ___. Political Freedom: The Constitutional Powers of the People. New York: Greenwood Press, 1979.
- Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: Longman, Roberts & Green, 1869. Accessed February 10, 2010, www.bartleby.com/130/.
- Miller, James A. and Tom Shales. Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live. London: Little, Brown and Company, 2002.
- Miller, Jeffrey S. Something Completely Different: British Television and American Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
- Morgan, Peter. Frost/Nixon: A Play. Oxford, Faber & Faber, 2007.
- Museum of Broadcast Communications. Encyclopedia of Radio. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.
- Newell, Robert H. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Charleston, SC: Bibliobazaar, 2009.
- Orman, John M. and Darrell M. West. Celebrity Politics. Alexandria, VA: Prentice Hall, 2002.
- Partridge, Marianna, ed. Rolling Stone Visits Saturday Night Live. Garden City: Dolphin Books, 1979.
- Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. New York: Penguin Group, 2006.
- Przeworksi, Adam. “Deliberation and Ideological Domination.” In Deliberative Democracy. Ed. John Elster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 140-160.
- Putnam, Robert D. Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.
- Reed, Henry. Lectures on English literature a 1854, ii (1855).
- Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon (New Americanists). London: Duke University Press, 1994.
- Schechter, Danny. Introduction to Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield., 2003.
- ___. The Death of Media: And the Fight to Save Democracy. Hoboken: Melville House, 2005.
- Schutz, Charles E. Political Humor: From Aristophanes to Sam Ervin. London: Associated University Presses, 1977.
- Shields, David S. “Cleo Mocks the Masons: Joseph Greene’s Masonic Satires.” In Deism, Masonry, and the Enlightenment. Essays Honoring Alfred Owen Aldridge. Ed. J. A. Leo Lemay. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1987, 109–26.
- Silverman, David S. You Can't Air That: Four Cases of Controversy and Censorship in American Television Programming (Television and Popular Culture). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007.
- Sirianni, C.J., and L. A. Friedland. Civic Innovation in America: Community, Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
- Smith, William. The History of the Late Province of New York from its Discovery to the Appointment of Governor Colden in 1762. Vol 2. New York: New York Historical Society, 1830.
- Smolla, Rodney A. Free Speech in an Open Society. New York: Knopf, 1992.
- Sloan, D. W. and J.D. Startt. The Media in America: a History. Northport, AL: Vision Press, 1999.
- Stevens, George Alexander. An Essay on Satire. London: G. Kearsley, 1785.
- Stokes, Susan. “Pathologies of Deliberation.” In Deliberative Democracy, ed. John Elster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998: 123-139.
- Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1994.
- Terrace, Vincent. Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of over 1800 Shows. Jefferson, N.C.: Mcfarland & Company, 1998.
- Thomas, Isaiah. The History of Printing in America With a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers. New York: General Books LLC, 2010.
- The Thoughts of a Tory Author, Concerning the Press: With the Opinion of the Ancients and Moderns, About Freedom of Speech and Writing. Missouri: Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2010.
- Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War: The Second Book. Trans. Richard Crawley, 431 B.C.E.. Accessed February 14, 2010. http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/ pelopwar.2.second.html.
- Vaughn, Stephen. Encyclopedia of American Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2009.
- White, E. B. Preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor. Ed. E.B. White and Katherine S. White. New York: Coward-McCann, 1941.
- Williams, Julie Hedgepeth.The Early American Press, 1690-1783 (The History of American Journalism). New York: Greenwood Press, 1994.
- Willis, Ken. “Merry Hell: Humour Competence and Social Incompetence”, in Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour, ed. Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering. New York: Palgrave Macmillon, 2005.
- Zoonen, Liesbet Van. Entertaining the Citizen: Where Politics and Popular Culture Converge. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.