News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century (Library of Contemporary Thought) - Softcover

Hamill, Pete

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345425286 ISBN 13: 9780345425287

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 1998

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Book by Hamill Pete

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The nationally prominent New York City journalist assesses the state of modern journalism with a critical but hopeful eye, covering such topics as the relationship between tabloid and traditional journalism and the death of Diana. Original.

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ONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
"When screaming headlines turn out to be based on stories that don't support them, the tale of the boy who cried wolf gets new life. When the newspaper is filled with stupid features about celebrities at the expense of hard news, the reader feels patronized. In the process, the critical relationship of reader to newspaper is slowly undermined."
--from NEWS IS A VERB

NEWS IS A VERB
Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century

"With the usual honorable exceptions, newspapers are getting dumber. They are increasingly filled with sensation, rumor, press-agent flackery, and bloated trivialities at the expense of significant facts. The Lewinsky affair was just a magnified version of what has been going on for some time. Newspapers emphasize drama and conflict at the expense of analysis. They cover celebrities as if reporters were a bunch of waifs with their noses pressed enviously to the windows of the rich and famous. They are

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0345425286
• ISBN 13: 9780345425287
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112