Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Journalism

In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration's escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam. Vietnam War Slang outlines the context behind the slang used by members of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War.

Troops facing and inflicting death display a high degree of linguistic creativity. Vietnam was the last American war fought by an army with conscripts, and their involuntary participation in the war added a dimension to the...

Over the past few decades, relationships between social workers and the media have become increasingly challenging. Social workers feel aggrieved by media reporting of their profession and believe that journalists lack sufficient knowledge and experience of the social services to report matters adequately and sensitively, whilst some journalists have urged social workers to adopt a more proactive public relations strategy. This book, first published in 1991, analyses the causes and consequences of the negative portrayal of social work within the media and considers various ways in which...

A group of strangers risk death along the New York State Thruway to save a soldier from a burning truck. The true story, as told by football legend Jim Brown, of how the number 44 rose to prominence at Syracuse University. The beautiful yet tragic connection between Vice President Joseph Biden and Syracuse. The impossible account of how Eric Carle, one of the world s great children s authors, found his way to a childhood friend through a photograph taken in Syracuse more than eighty years ago.

All these tales can be found in The Soul of Central New York, a collection of...

First came C-SPAN's Booknotes in 1989, which by the time it ended in December 2004, was the longest-running author-interview program in American broadcast history. Many of the most notable nonfiction authors of its era...

Das Buch hat einfuhrenden Charakter: es will Fernsehen im Spektrum der modernen Medien verstehen, zunachst anhand der elementaren Leistungen und Bedingungen des historisch veranderlichen "Dispositivs": welcher Art sind im einzelnen die kommunikations- und zeichenstrukturellen Grundlagen (Audiovisualitat, Ubertragung, Aktualitat, Einweg- und Programmstruktur), seine technischen Voraussetzungen, seine offentlich-institutionellen Rahmungen und seine soziokulturelle Verankerung in der privaten Nutzung, wobei die Beschreibung jeweils auf die deutschen Verhaltnisse bezogen wird. Dann folgt die...

Hailed by David Weigel in Slate as having "had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any journalist," James O'Keefe is young, brash, and provocative: a new breed of guerrilla reporter for the twenty-first century. He and his associates have famously infiltrated...