Media Warfare: The Americanization of Language

ISBN-13: 9781412807289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 374 str.

Melvin J. Lasky

Opis

Media Warfare is the concluding volume of Melvin Lasky's monumental TheLanguage of Journalism, a three-volume series that has been praised as a "brilliant" and "original" study in communications and contemporary language. Firmly rooted in the critical tradition of H. L. Mencken, George Orwell, and Karl Kraus, Lasky's incisive analysis of journalistic use and misuse of language measures the cultural and political health of contemporary society as well the declining standards of contemporary journalism.

Spis treści

1: Intermezzo Robert Burton’s Melancholy Dilemma: Journalism without Newspapers; 1: The Universal Assignment; 2: The Journalistic Imagination; 3: Reporting Murder, Observing the World; 4: From More to Tyndale to Burton; 5: Euphuistic Euphoria; 6: In Dreams Begin Irresponsibilities; 7: Secret Expletives; 8: Across the Centuries; 9: Mentioning the Unmentionable; 2: The Orgasm that Failed; 10: The Swinging Pendulum; 11: Searching for an Immoral Equivalent; 3: The Perception of American Words; 12: Feisty to Funky to Flaky; 13: Godperson and Other Funny Talk; 14: Perception Uncleansed; 15: Hillary, and Getting the Perception Right; 4: A Journalist Gets Serious: In P.G. Wodehouse’s “Noo Yawk”; 16: The Birth of a Crusader; 17: Facts, From Homer to Kafka (Elmore Leonard); 18: Jewish Gangsters and the East Side Story; 19: Was This How Things Really Were?; 5: In the Crossfire of the Media Wars; 20: Spin Doctors and Other Quacks; 21: Images of Violence, Words of War; 22: How Not to Report a War (Lebanon 1982); 23: Interchangeable Tragedy; 24: Of Realities and Realpolitik; 25: Spielberg, Or the Hollywood Scapegoat; 26: Journalism and Jewry; 27: White House Storm, Or “Hurricane Monica”; 6: Intimations of a Post-Profane Era; 28: A Curse on Boyle’s Law; 29: Scholem’s Nouns and Verbs; 30: Robert Graves, Or the Vision of a Post-Profane Era; 31: Counter-Revolution and Utopia

O autorze

Melvin J. Lasky