On television and journalism
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On television and journalism
Pluto Press, 1998
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 86-88
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A corruscating attack on television - and on the 'collaboration' between intellectuals and the media which, Bourdieu argues, is leading to new and more invidious forms of dumbing down.
Bourdieu examines the way in which apparently serious TV debate gives way to soundbite, as a series of talking 'experts' go through the motions of comment and consideration in increasingly self-referential circles.
The result: banal and worthless drivel, shaped almost entirely by the imperatives of television ratings wars rather than any consideration of the truth. Television, Bourdieu claims, has now had a profound and largely detrimental effect not just on journalism, but on the formerly very separate worlds of art, literature, philosophy, politics, justice and even science - all of which are in danger of being forced to submit to what he describes as the 'commercial plebiscite' of audience ratings.
Table of Contents
Prologue - Journalism and Politics
On Television
Preface
Part One - In Front of the Camera and Behind the Scenes
Part Two - Invisible Structures and Their Effects
The Power of Journalism
Appendix - The Olympics - An Agenda for Analysis
Translator's Note
Bibliography
Notes
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
