Description |
xiii, 178 pages ; 20 cm |
Contents |
1. Are You Watching Television, or Is Television Watching You? -- 2. What Is News? -- 3. Getting Them into the Electronic Tent -- 4. Donuts, Big Foot, Mules, and the Bird -- 5. Behind the Scenes: Nuts and Bolts -- 6. The News Director -- 7. Reenactments and Docudramas, or No News Is Still News -- 8. The Bias of Language, the Bias of Pictures -- 9. The Commercial -- 10. Television in the Courtroom -- 11. What Does It All Mean? -- 12. What Can You Do? -- 13. Where Do We Go from Here? |
Summary |
"This newly revised book reveals the shocking ways in which media is manipulating our worldview - and bombarding America's television viewers with misinformation."--BOOK JACKET |
Notes |
Includes index |
Subject |
Television broadcasting of news -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Television broadcasting of news -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Content analysis (Communication)
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Author |
Powers, Steve, Ph. D.
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LC no. |
2008015156 |
ISBN |
9780143113775 |
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0143113771 |
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