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That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America
ISBN: 9780226421520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It's too dumbed-down, they say; it's no longer news but entertainment, celebrity-obsessed and vapid. The critics may be right. But, as Charles L. Ponce de Leon explains in That's the Way It Is, TV news has always walked a fine line between hard news and fluff. The familiar story of decline fails to acknowledge real changes in the media and Americans' news-consuming habits, while also harking back to a golden age that, on closer examination, is revealed to be not so...
When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It's too dumbed-down, they say; it's no lon...
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91,93 zł |
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Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940
ISBN: 9780807854037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Few features of contemporary American culture are as widely lamented as the public's obsession with celebrity--and the trivializing effect this obsession has on what appears as news. Nevertheless, America's "culture of celebrity" remains misunderstood, particularly when critics discuss its historical roots.
In this pathbreaking book, Charles Ponce de Leon provides a new interpretation of the emergence of celebrity. Focusing on the development of human-interest journalism about prominent public figures, he illuminates the ways in which new forms of press coverage gradually undermined... Few features of contemporary American culture are as widely lamented as the public's obsession with celebrity--and the trivializing effect this obsess...
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219,85 zł |