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The Tainted Truth
ISBN: 9780684815565 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sponsored studies have become America's most powerful and popular tool of persuasion. Tainted Truth shows that much of what we learn from them is false. Although the studies and surveys wear the guise of objective science, their findings almost invariably reflect their sponsors' intentions.
In this important and provocative book, Cynthia Crossen reveals how the manufacturers of silicone breast implants did not disclose information regarding the dangers of the implants, how the demise of the cloth-diaper industry was influenced by questionable statistics paid for by Procter &... Sponsored studies have become America's most powerful and popular tool of persuasion. Tainted Truth shows that much of what we learn from them ...
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The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
ISBN: 9780684846309 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn how to be the best journalist you can be with what "could be the world's most readable textbook" (Time Out New York). The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing literary journalism back to such pioneers as Defoe, Dickens, and Orwell, and to crime writers, investigative social reporters, and war correspondents who stretched the limits of style and even propriety to communicate powerful truth. Here an extraordinary range of styles--the elegance of Gay Talese, the militance of Marvel Cooke, the station-house cynicism of David Simon, the manic intelligence of Richard...
Learn how to be the best journalist you can be with what "could be the world's most readable textbook" (Time Out New York). The Art of F...
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83,62 |
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Politics and the Press in Indonesia: Understanding an Evolving Political Culture
ISBN: 9780700717453 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the evolving political culture in Indonesia, by discussing the country's dominant political philosophies, then showing how those philosophies affect the working lives of ordinary Indonesian citizens. It focuses in particular on the working lives of news journalists, a group that occupies a strategic social and political position. The author discusses the philosophies of 'Pancasila', the official national ideology, as well as paternalism, integrationism and corporatism. Romano also explores the 32-year period of New Order government and the rapid changes that followed...
This book explores the evolving political culture in Indonesia, by discussing the country's dominant political philosophies, then showing how those ph...
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437,16 |
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Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers
ISBN: 9780712664479 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This brisk and pungent guide to the use of words as tools of communication is written primarily for journalists, yet its lessons are of immense value to all who face the problem of giving information, whether to the general public or within business, professional or social organizations. What makes a good English sentence? How should you rewrite a bad one? What cliches and other word-traps are to be avoided? Using a wealth of examples drawn from British and American newspapers, Essential English is an indispensable guide for all who have to convey information by the written or printed...
This brisk and pungent guide to the use of words as tools of communication is written primarily for journalists, yet its lessons are of immense value ...
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85,50 |
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South Africa and the International Media, 1972-1979 : A Struggle for Representation
ISBN: 9780714649795 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1970s, the South African Department of Information attempted to manipulate and neutralize the international media treatment of South Africa. This programme was later exposed in what became known as the Information scandal. Meanwhile in Europe and North America, anti-apartheid campaigners increased pressure on the South African regime.
During the 1970s, the South African Department of Information attempted to manipulate and neutralize the international media treatment of South Africa...
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704,38 |
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Sport, Media, Culture : Global and Local Dimensions
ISBN: 9780714652993 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenonmenon, with a focus on Europe and the USA. This study analyses such issues as new media technology; gender, ethnicity and local dimensions of collective identity; changes within the arena of the Olympic games; women in American basketball advertising; and cult football radio in Scotland. With the addition of an interview by the Senior Vice-President of NBC Sports, this book will of importance to students of both sport and the media, as well as interest to professionals and academic specialists within this field.
An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenonmenon, with a focus on Europe and the USA. This study analyses such issues as new medi...
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777,25 |
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South Africa and the International Media, 1972-1979: A Struggle for Representation
ISBN: 9780714680415 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1970s, the South African Department of Information attempted to manipulate and neutralize the international media treatment of South Africa. This programme was later exposed in what became known as the Information scandal. Meanwhile in Europe and North America, anti-apartheid campaigners increased pressure on the South African regime.
During the 1970s, the South African Department of Information attempted to manipulate and neutralize the international media treatment of South Africa...
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237,98 |
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Sport, Media, Culture: Global and Local Dimensions
ISBN: 9780714682617 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenonmenon, with a focus on Europe and the USA. This study analyses such issues as new media technology; gender, ethnicity and local dimensions of collective identity; changes within the arena of the Olympic games; women in American basketball advertising; and cult football radio in Scotland. With the addition of an interview by the Senior Vice-President of NBC Sports, this book will of importance to students of both sport and the media, as well as interest to professionals and academic specialists within this field.
An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenonmenon, with a focus on Europe and the USA. This study analyses such issues as new medi...
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242,84 |
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Spinning Into Control: News Values and Source Strategies
ISBN: 9780718502515 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is an introduction to the key issues of contemporary news reporting for students of media and journalism. It includes practical case studies of why some items make it into the news and others don't, how sources are used and abused, and what kind of values govern news reporting.
This work is an introduction to the key issues of contemporary news reporting for students of media and journalism. It includes practical case studies...
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920,43 |
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Spinning into Control
ISBN: 9780718502522 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is an introduction to the key issues of contemporary news reporting for students of media and journalism. It includes practical case studies of why some items make it into the news and others don't, how sources are used and abused, and what kind of values govern news reporting.
This work is an introduction to the key issues of contemporary news reporting for students of media and journalism. It includes practical case studies...
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383,46 |
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Converging Media, Diverging Politics: A Political Economy of News Media in the United States and Canada
ISBN: 9780739108277 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What purpose does the news media serve in contemporary North American society? In this collection of essays, experts from both the United States and Canada investigate this question, exploring the effects of media concentration in democratic systems. Specifically, the scholars collected here consider, from a range of vantage points, how corporate and technological convergence in the news industry in the United States and Canada impacts journalism's expressed role as a medium of democratic communication.
What purpose does the news media serve in contemporary North American society? In this collection of essays, experts from both the United States and C...
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510,07 |
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Converging Media, Diverging Politics: A Political Economy of News Media in the United States and Canada
ISBN: 9780739113066 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What purpose does the news media serve in contemporary North American society? In this collection of essays, experts from both the United States and Canada investigate this question, exploring the effects of media concentration in democratic systems. Specifically, the scholars collected here consider, from a range of vantage points, how corporate and technological convergence in the news industry in the United States and Canada impacts journalism's expressed role as a medium of democratic communication.
What purpose does the news media serve in contemporary North American society? In this collection of essays, experts from both the United States and C...
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233,17 |
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Desperately Seeking Women Readers: U.S. Newspapers and the Construction of a Female Readership
ISBN: 9780739114902 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Desperately Seeking Women Readers considers explicitly named women's pages in U.S. newspapers to understand how the newspaper industry has constructed women readers. Special pages for women developed in the 1890s but by the 1960s had disappeared. The book investigates the creation and collapse of these pages before considering contemporary case studies to articulate why newspapers during the 1990s recreated sex-specific pages. The author argues that women's sections reinforce women as consumers and men as citizens.
Desperately Seeking Women Readers considers explicitly named women's pages in U.S. newspapers to understand how the newspaper industry has constructed...
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422,64 |
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Desperately Seeking Women Readers: U.S. Newspapers and the Construction of a Female Readership
ISBN: 9780739114919 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Desperately Seeking Women Readers delves into the history of U.S. newspapers to examine the construction of female readership. Pages designed specifically for women transformed over time as the newspaper industry looked for ways to capture women readers. Harp investigates the creation and collapse of these pages before considering contemporary case studies to explore the recent revival of sex-specific pages. Interviews with professional journalists reveal the difficulties with defining news for women and the problems inherent in constructing newspapers in a sex-specific way. With a clear and...
Desperately Seeking Women Readers delves into the history of U.S. newspapers to examine the construction of female readership. Pages designed specific...
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204,03 |
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Picturing China in the American Press: The Visual Portrayal of Sino-American Relations in Time Magazine
ISBN: 9780739118207 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Picturing China in the American Press juxtaposes what the ordinary American news reader was shown visually inTime Magazine between 1949 and 1973 with contemporary perspectives on the behind-the-scenes history of the period. Time Magazine is an especially fruitful source for such a visual-historical contrast and comparison because it was China-centric, founded and run by Henry Luce, a man who loved China and was commensurably obsessed with winning China to democracy and Western influence. Picturing China examines in detail major events (the Korean War and Nixon's trip to China), less...
Picturing China in the American Press juxtaposes what the ordinary American news reader was shown visually inTime Magazine between 1949 and 1973 with ...
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233,17 |
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Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper
ISBN: 9780739118948 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On March 16, 1827, Freedom's Journal, the first African-American newspaper, began publication in New York. Freedom's Journal was a forum edited and controlled by African Americans in which they could articulate their concerns. National in scope and distributed in several countries, the paper connected African Americans beyond the boundaries of city or region and engaged international issues from their perspective. It ceased publication after only two years, but shaped the activism of both African-American and white leaders for generations to come. A comprehensive examination of this...
On March 16, 1827, Freedom's Journal, the first African-American newspaper, began publication in New York. Freedom's Journal was a forum edited and co...
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218,60 |
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Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World
ISBN: 9780742523852 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social networks, indigenous...
Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the po...
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257,46 |
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Reporting from the Front: The Media and the Military
ISBN: 9780742530607 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During what some have called the "most televised war in history," did journalistic objectivity fall by the wayside? Were the experiences of embedded journalists in Iraq markedly different from reporters who went on their own? Reporting from the Front is a provocative look at media and the Iraq War--spanning issues from basic reporting and coverage to ethical dilemmas, personal safety, and training with the military. Featuring interviews with journalists such as Anne Garrels and Ivan Watson of NPR and Bob Schieffer and Byron Pitts of CBS, among others, Reporting from the Front offers personal...
During what some have called the "most televised war in history," did journalistic objectivity fall by the wayside? Were the experiences of embedded j...
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184,60 |
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Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror
ISBN: 9780742531093 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Limiting access, limiting information to cover the backsides of those who are in charge of the war, is extremely dangerous and cannot and should not be accepted. And I am sorry to say that, up to and including the moment of this interview, that overwhelmingly it has been accepted by the American people. And the current administration revels in that, and they take refuge in that.' --CBS News Anchor Dan Rather on BBC News Night, May 16, 2002 In Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror, MediaChannel founder and editor, Danny Schechter, 'the News Dissector, ' critically examines media coverage since...
'Limiting access, limiting information to cover the backsides of those who are in charge of the war, is extremely dangerous and cannot and should not ...
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204,03 |
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The Mediated Presidency: Television News and Presidential Governance
ISBN: 9780742536784 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Including late-breaking data from the Iraq occupation and the disastrous CBS News reports on Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard Service, acclaimed media scholars Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter examine news coverage of military policy, economic policy, and scandals from the last four U.S. presidencies, including the current controversial administration. Using a quarter-century of content analysis data, the authors demonstrate how the White House dominates Capitol Hill on every dimension of news coverage, undermining Congress's attempt to compete as a co-equal branch before the...
Including late-breaking data from the Iraq occupation and the disastrous CBS News reports on Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard Service, acclaimed medi...
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184,60 |