| Description |
xiii, 315 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Critical media studies |
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Critical media studies.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Barbie Zelizer -- Introduction: The Panic over Tabloid News / Colin Sparks -- Pt. 1. Are the Tabloids Taking Over? 1. Political Space and the Trade in Television News / Andrew Calabrese. 2. Does Tabloidization Make German Local Newspapers Successful? / Klaus Schonbach. 3. Tabloidization in the British Press: A Quantitative Investigation into Changes in British Newspapers, 1952-1997 / Shelley McLachlan and Peter Golding. 4. Thirty Years of Competition in the British Tabloid Press: The Mirror and the Sun 1968-1998 / Dick Rooney. 5. The Development of the Tabloid Press in Hungary / Agnes Gulyas -- Pt. 2. Tabloid Journalism in Perspective. 6. The Eternal Recurrence of New Journalism / John Tulloch. 7. The "Home and Family" Section in the Japanese Newspaper / Kaori Hayashi. 8. Talking about the Tabloids: Journalists' Views / Mathieu M. Rhoufari. 9. Tabloidized Political Coverage in the German Bild-Zeitung / Ulrike Klein. 10. Tabloidization, Media Panics, and Mad Cow Disease / Rod Brookes -- Pt. 3. What Implications Does Tabloid Journalism Have for Society? 11. Audience Demands in a Murderous Market: Tabloidization in U.S. Television News / S. Elizabeth Bird. 12. Literacy, Seriousness, and the Oprah Winfrey Book Club / Janice Peck. 13. Rethinking Personalization in Current Affairs Journalism / Myra Macdonald. 14. La Nota Roja: Popular Journalism and the Transition to Democracy in Mexico / Daniel C. Hallin. 15. Tabloidization, Popular Journalism, and Democracy / Jostein Gripsrud |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Journalistic ethics.
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Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Sensationalism in journalism.
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Sensationalism on television.
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Tabloid newspapers.
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| Author |
Sparks, Colin, 1947-
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Tulloch, John, 1946-
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| LC no. |
99039675 |
| ISBN |
0847695719 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0847695727 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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