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Author Rivers, Caryl.

Title Slick spins and fractured facts : how cultural myths distort the news / Caryl Rivers
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description xv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Totem and Taboo: The Culture of the News Media -- 2. Put the Blame on Eve, Boys: The Devil Made Her Do It - Or Maybe It Was Just Her Tiny Brain -- 3. Unruly Bodies: Is It PMS, or Just the Wrong Side of Her Brain? -- 4. Dragon Ladies: Give Women Power, and Who Knows What Will Happen -- 5. Vanishing Acts: How Good News About Working Women Disappears -- 6. Monkey Business: Why the Media Love Our Primate Cousins -- 7. Born to Be Bad: The Fault, Dear Brutus, Is in Our Genes -- 8. Flash-Feminism Is Still Dead: But It's Bad for You, Anyhow -- 9. Thought Police, Tribes, and Victims: The Media and Multiculturalism -- 10. Quota Queens Meet Affirmative Discrimination: When Fairness Comes Under Fire -- 11. Strangers Among Us: Zoo Stories and Ice Queens -- 12. The Color of Evil Is Black: The Media Demonize the Black Male -- 13. Was Dan Quayle Right?: Or Did the Media Buy a Pig in a Poke? -- 14. Comforting the Comfortable: Does News Coverage of the Poor Bolster the Status Quo?
15. The War on Welfare: How the Media Scapegoat Poor Women -- 16. The Call of the Wild: Are Journalists a Slavering Pack?
Analysis Coalition (Politics)
Denmark
History
Overseas item
Political parties, Overseas
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-240) and index
Notes English
Subject Journalism -- Objectivity.
Journalistic ethics.
Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Mass media -- Objectivity.
SUBJECT Denmark -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036810
LC no. 95042313
ISBN 023110152X (acid-free paper)
Other Titles How cultural myths distort the news