Media Coverage
of Presidential Elections:
The Legacy of Campaign 2000
PART
I: GEORGE, THE ONLINE CATALOG
PART II: INDEXES AND DATABASES
PART III: INTERNET
RESOURCES
PART IV: RELATED PUBLICATIONS BY
PROFESSOR DIANA OWEN
PART V: NEW REPORTS ON ELECTIONS
PART
I: GEORGE,
THE ONLINE CATALOG
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Kerbel,
Matthew. Edited for Television: CNN,
ABC, and American Presidential
Elections. Boulder, CO: Westview
Press, 1998. (E884.K47
1998)
New
York Times Company. 36
Days: The Complete Chronicle of the
2000 Presidential Election
Crisis. New York: Times Books,
2001.(JK526
2000.T43 2001)
United
States. Office of the Federal Register. Provisions
of the Constitution and United States
Code Relating to Presidential
Elections.
Washington: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 2000. (AE2.102:P92/2000)
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Dautrich,
Kenneth. How the News Media Fails
American Voters: Causes,
Consequences, and Remedies. New York:
Columbia University
Press, 1999. (PN4888.P6D367 1999)
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aspects-United States
Graber,
Doris A., ed. Media Power in Politics.
Washington, DC: CQ
Press, 2000. (HN90.M3 M43 2000)
Iyenger,
Shanto and Richard Reeves, eds. Do
the Media Govern?: Politicians,
Voters, and Reporters in America.
Thousand Oaks,CA:
Sage Publications, 1997. (P95.82.U6 D64
1997)
Johnson,
Thomas J., Carol E. Hays, and Scott P.
Hays, eds. Engaging
the Public: How Government and the Media
Can Reinvigorate
American Democracy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield,
1998. (JK1764.E54 1998)
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States-election-2000
Greenfield,
Jeff. "Oh Waiter! One Order of
Crow!": Inside the Strangest
Presidential Election Finish in American
History. New
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Alternative Dispute Resolution
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Federal Elections 2000.
Washington: U.S. Government Printing
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PART
II: INDEXES AND
DATABASES
1)
Congressional Universe
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and media
United
States. Congress. House. Committee on
Energy and Commerce. Election
Night Coverage by the Networks. Hearing, Feb.
14, 2001. Washington: U.S. Government
Printing Office, 2001. (Y4.C73/7:S.Hrg.
107-25) (CIS No. 2001-H361-24)
United
States. Congress. Senate. Committee on
Commerce, Science, and
Transportation. Media Election Projections.
Hearing, Aug. 2, 1984.
Washington: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1984. (CIS No.
85-S261-7)
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States. Congress. Senate. Committee on
Commerce, Science, and
Transportation. Early Projections
of Election Results. Report.
Washington: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1984. (contained
in Y1.1/2:SERIAL 13562 (S.Rpt.98-600))
2) PolicyFile
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2000 and media
Basham,
Patrick, Tom G. Palmer, and John Samples. "Lessons
of Election 2000" from The Cato Institute's
Website, Jan 2, 2001.
Solomon,
Norman. "Arrogance of TV Networks:
Compunding a National Crisis" from
the Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's
Web Site, Nov 9, 2000.
Wattenberg, Ben J. "Punish TV for Hasty Vote Projections" from
American Enterprise Institute's Website,
Nov 17, 2000.
3) Periodical
Abstracts Research II (PA Research
II)
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elections and media
Hagemann,
Emily. "Media to Clean Up Election
Coverage Without
Lawmakers." News Media and the
Law. 25:2 (Spring 2001).
Heinen,
Neil. "Television Was Center
Stage Throughout." The Masthead.
53:1 (Spring 2001).
Wardle,
Claire, Kate Kenski, Dan Orr, and Kathleen
Hall Jamieson. "The
Voter News Service and the 2000 Election
Night Calls." The
American Behavioral Scientist. 44:12
(Aug. 2001).
4)
Academic Universe
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night and CBS
CBS
News Transcripts (Dan Rather and Mike
Wallace, reporting). CBS News Election
Night. (7 November 2000).
PART
III: INTERNET
RESOURCES
National
Journal Group's Policy Central
<http://www.nationaljournal.com/policycentral>
Incorporates
content and resources from all branches
of National Journal Group Inc., including
CongressDaily and House race hotline.
Also features Hotline weekly, polling
results, campaign and issue ads, the
online Almanac of American Politics, "buzz" columns
and top stories from the weekly National
Journal.
CBS
News Coverage of Election Night 2000:
Investigation, Analysis, Recommendations
<http://cbsnews.com/htdocs/c2k/pdf/REPFINAL.pdf>
Prepared
for CBS News by Linda Mason, Kathleen
Frankovic, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
Television's
Performance on Election Night 2000:
A Report for CNN
<http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/02/02
/cnn.report/cnn.pdf>
Prepared
for CNN by Joan Konner, James Risser,
and Ben Wattenberg.
The
National Commission on Federal Election
Reform
<http://www.reformelections.org>
A
commission headed by two former U.S.
Presidents to recommend ways to improve
the accuracy and fairness of federal
elections. It includes the commission's
final report.
Election
Center
<http://www.electioncenter.org>
The
Election Center is a non-profit organization.
Its mission is to promote, preserve,
and improve democracy
PART
IV: RELATED
PUBLICATIONS BY
PROFESSOR DIANA OWEN
Owen,
Diana. Media Messages in American
Presidential Elections.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. (JK524.O94 1991)
Owen,
Diana and Richard Davis. New Media
and American Politics.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
(P95.82.U6D38 1998)
Owen,
Diana. "Media Mayhem: The Performance
of the Press in Election
2000," in Overtime! The Election
2000 Thriller. Larry J. Sabato,
ed. New York: Longman Publishers, 2001.
(JK526 2000.S26 2002)
PART
V: NEW REPORTS
ON ELECTIONS
The
United States General Accounting Office
<http://www.gao.gov>
United
States. General Accounting Office. Elections:
A Framework for
Evaluating Reform Proposals. Washington:
General Accounting
Office, 2001. (GAO-02-90)
United
States. General Accounting Office. Elections:
Perspectives on
Activities and Challenges Across the
Nation. Washington: General
Accounting Office, 2001. (GAO-02-3)
United
States. General Accounting Office. Elections:
Status and Use of
Federal Voting System Standards.
Washington: General Accounting
Office, 2001. (GAO-02-52)
United
States. General Accounting Office. Elections:
Statistical Analysis
of Factors That Affected Uncounted Votes
in the 2000 Presidential
Election. Washington: General Accounting
Office, 2001.
(GAO-02-122)