Herbert J. Gans is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books including The Urban Villagers (Free Press, 1962), Popular Culture and High Culture (Basic Books, 1999), The Levittowners (Columbia University Press, 1982), and Democracy and the News (Oxford University Press, 2003).
"Deciding What's News is a good study. It tells us that our
colleagues who set much of the nation's agenda have solid,
bourgeois, mildly reformist views, respect authority, want to be
liked and probably see the unfamiliar as vaguely threatening. The
result is that tomorrow's news is going to look very much like
today's, even if the world does not."
-Frank Mankiewicz, New York Times Book Review
"Gans does a hell of a job in demolishing the myths of an
anti-establishment press."
-Richard Reeves, The Washington Monthly
"Neither burdened by jargon nor boosted by flashy style, the book
renders the biases of the media with unusual authority." -Michael
Schudson, Chicago Tribune
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