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How to watch TV news / Neil Postman and Steve Powers ; with new and updated material by Steve Powers.

Title
How to watch TV news / Neil Postman and Steve Powers ; with new and updated material by Steve Powers.
Author
Postman, Neil.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 2008.

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Additional Authors
Powers, Steve, Ph. D.
Description
xiii, 178 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
"This newly revised book reveals the shocking ways in which media is manipulating our worldview - and bombarding America's television viewers with misinformation."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Content analysis (Communication)
  • Television broadcasting of news > Social aspects > United States
  • Television broadcasting of news > United States > Psychological aspects
  • Television broadcasting of news > United States > Social aspects
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Are you watching television, or is television watching you? -- What is news? -- Getting them into the electronic tent -- Donuts, Big Foot, mules and the bird -- Behind the scenes: nuts and bolts -- The news director -- Reenactments and docudramas, or no news is still news -- The bias of language, the bias of pictures -- The commercial -- Television in the courtroom -- What does it all mean? -- What can you do? -- Where do we go from here?
ISBN
  • 9780143113775
  • 0143113771
LCCN
^^2008015156