From Cronkite to Colbert : the evolution of broadcast news
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From Cronkite to Colbert : the evolution of broadcast news
（Media and power）
Paradigm, c2010
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ISBN 9781594515538
Description
In a time when increasing numbers of people are tuning out the nightly news and media consumption is falling, the late-night comedians have become some of the most important newscasters in the country. From Cronkite to Colbert explains why. It examines an historical path that begins at the height of the network age with Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, when the evening news was considered the authoritative record of the day's events and forged our assumptions about what "the news" is, or should be. The book then winds its way through the breakdown of that paradigm of "real" news and into its reinvention in the unlikely form of such popularized shows as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. From Cronkite to Colbert makes the case that rather than "fake news," those shows should be understood as a new kind of journalism, one that has the potential to save the news and reinvigorate the conversation of democracy in today's society.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Jon Stewart, Brian Williams, and Ted Koppel's Giant Head
Chapter Two: Representing Reality
Chapter Three: Publicizing Politics
Chapter Four: The Slow Death of CBS News
Chapter Five: News from Somewhere: Hybrid Blends in the Multichannel Era
Chapter Six: The Daily Show and The Reinvention of Political Journalism
Chapter Seven: "Nothing I'm Saying Means Anything": Stephen Colbert and the New Language of Public Affairs
Chapter Eight: Networked News: Stewart, Colbert, and the New Public Sphere
Chapter Nine: Real News, Fake News, and the Conversation of Democracy
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: pbk ISBN 9781594515545
Description
In a time when increasing numbers of people are tuning out the nightly news and media consumption is falling, the late-night comedians have become some of the most important newscasters in the country. From Cronkite to Colbert explains why. It examines an historical path that begins at the height of the network age with Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, when the evening news was considered the authoritative record of the day's events and forged our assumptions about what "the news" is, or should be. The book then winds its way through the breakdown of that paradigm of "real" news and into its reinvention in the unlikely form of such popularized shows as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. From Cronkite to Colbert makes the case that rather than "fake news," those shows should be understood as a new kind of journalism, one that has the potential to save the news and reinvigorate the conversation of democracy in today's society.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Jon Stewart, Brian Williams, and Ted Koppel's Giant Head Chapter Two: Representing Reality Chapter Three: Publicizing Politics Chapter Four: The Slow Death of CBS News Chapter Five: News from Somewhere: Hybrid Blends in the Multichannel Era Chapter Six: The Daily Show and The Reinvention of Political Journalism Chapter Seven: "Nothing I'm Saying Means Anything": Stephen Colbert and the New Language of Public Affairs Chapter Eight: Networked News: Stewart, Colbert, and the New Public Sphere Chapter Nine: Real News, Fake News, and the Conversation of Democracy
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