A new book by Dr. John Pollock, Professor in the Communication Studies Department at The College of New Jersey (Ewing, NJ) titled Tilted Mirrors: Media Alignment with Political and Social Change – A Community Structure Approach has been released by Hampton Press (Cresskill, NJ).

The back cover features the following endorsements:

“John Pollock’s impeccable study is a terrific piece of research. Tilted Mirrors belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who wants to know how the press in America truly operates. Pollock’s unsettling findings go far beyond previous work in illuminating the relationship between a community and its daily paper, forcing journalists to rethink comfortable assumptions and requiring faculty to revise the way they teach and write about the press.”

- Thomas E. Patterson, The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

“John Pollock’s Tilted Mirrors book enters a new theoretical and methodological domain in explaining media content on politics and public affairs. His ‘community structure approach’ seeks explanations for journalists’ news decisions in the wider social structure of the community, conceptualizing the local newspaper as a ‘community institution’, not—as is the case in most other approaches—as a professional world of its own.  Unlike most community case studies, the methodological innovation of this book lies in samples of multiple cities and their newspapers.”

- Wolfgang Donsbach, Institute for the Study of Communications, Dresden University of Technology

“Community structure analysis holds great promise for media and public policy research, and John Pollock’s elaboration of the concept transforms the notion of ‘community pluralism’ into a well grounded and empirically validated approach toward understanding the ways in which power actually operates on and through the press, helping to reveal the ways interests, positions of privilege and status among key stakeholders work together to determine how issues will be framed in different communities.”

- Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania