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Hiding in plain sight
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Hiding in plain sight
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the news media and the politics of framing the unilateral Presidency
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Mark
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1980-
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Mark Major
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Leech
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Beth L
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chair
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Ross K
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Tillery
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Alvin B
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Regina G
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Regina G Lawrence
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2013
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2013-05
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This dissertation explores the dynamic process of traditional print and online news media framing of direct presidential actions. Since President George Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality, the proper scope and exercise of executive unilateral powers are an ongoing debate. With a mere “stroke of the pen,” presidents can change the political status quo. However, the legality of unilateral powers remains murky, at best, as the US Constitution is silent about these actions. This research investigates the role of news institutions in bringing attention to these unwritten powers of the presidency, examining the amount of coverage, type of frames that are used, who influences the frames, and whether these frames serve as a substantive check on the unilateral powers of the American presidency. Employing content and textual analyses of more than 1,000 news items and nearly 7,000 quoted sources from the New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today as well as top online blogs like Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Townhall, Hot Air, and Michelle Malkin, across twelve presidential administrations, it is argued that the framing of direct presidential action is largely favorable to executive power. This is due to presidential sources being treated as more authoritative than congressional sources and other political actors in the news and a passive political system that is indifferent to presidential unilateral actions. Thus, the news provides cover to the president by normalizing the use of these unwritten powers. However, when the political system pushes back against unitary executive actions, the media responds in kind.
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Political Science
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Executive orders--United States
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Implied powers (Constitutional law)--United States
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Mass media policy
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xii, 186 p. : ill.
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by Mark Major
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD doctoral
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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