Tabloid Tales Global Debates over Media Standards |
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| Contribution by:
| Sparks, Colin
Bird, S. Elizabeth
Brookes, Rod
Calabrese, Andrew
Golding, Peter
Gripsrud, Jostein
Peck, Janice |
| Editor:
| Sparks, Colin
Tulloch, John |
| Series title: | Critical Media Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8476-9571-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $187.95 |
Book Description:
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The increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as 'tabloidization.' The essays in this book are the first serious scholarly studies of what is going on and what its implications are. Reality, it turns out, is much more complex than some of the laments suggest. As the contributors show, this is not just a U.S. problem but is repeated in country after country, and it is not certain that the media anywhere are getting more...
More DescriptionThe increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as 'tabloidization.' The essays in this book are the first serious scholarly studies of what is going on and what its implications are. Reality, it turns out, is much more complex than some of the laments suggest. As the contributors show, this is not just a U.S. problem but is repeated in country after country, and it is not certain that the media anywhere are getting more tabloid. What is more, there is no consensus about whether tabloidization is just 'dumbing down' or whether it is a necessary tactic for the mass media to engage with new audiences who do not have the news habit.