1st Edition
Tabloid Television Popular Journalism and the 'Other News'
By John Langer
Copyright 1998
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Fires, floods, accidents, celebrity lifestyles, heroic acts of humble people, cute acts by family pets and the weather. Television's non-news about non-events takes up an increasingly large part of contemporary broadcast journalism, but is regularly dismissed by television pundits as having no place on our screens. To its critics, this 'other news' distracts our attention with trivialities and... Read more
1. THE LAMENT, THE CRITICAL PROJECT AND THE ‘BAD’ NEWS ON TELEVISION, 2. OF PARADIGMS, PENDULUMS AND MEDIA POWER, 3. SITUATING THE ‘OTHER NEWS’, 4. THE ESPECIALLY REMARKABLE, 5. VICTIMS, 6. COMMUNITIES AT RISK, 7. WILL THE CYCLE BE UNBROKEN?, 8. POLITICS, PLEASURES, ‘SPIN-OFFS’, APPENDIX, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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John Langer
