David L. Altheide is Regents Professor, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University. A recipient of both the Premio Diego Fabbri and Charles Horton Cooley awards, Dr. Altheide was President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in 1995-96., Dr. Altheide is a frequent contributor to major journals, and is author of Media Power; Creating Reality: How TV News Distorts Events; and coauthor of Media Logic; Bureaucracy and Freedom; Bureaucratic Propaganda; and (with Robert P. Snow) Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era (Aldine).