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Tabloid television : popular journalism and the "other news / John Langer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Communication and society (Routledge (Firm))Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998Description: 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415066360
  • 9780415066365
  • 0415066379
  • 9780415066372
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.195 21
LOC classification:
  • PN4784.T4 L29 1998
Contents:
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? Ritual, Tradition and the Past -- 8. Politics, Pleasures, 'Spin-offs' -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "Fires, floods, celebrity lifestyles, heroic acts of humble people, and cute acts by family pets. Sensational news seems to take up an increasingly large part of contemporary broadcast journalism, but it is regularly dismissed as having no place on our screens. In Tabloid Television, John Langer argues that television's "other news" must be recognized as equally important as "hard news" in the building of a comprehensive study of broadcast journalism. Using narrative analysis, theories of ideology, concepts from genre studies and detailed textual readings, "other news" is explored as a cultural discourse connected with story- telling, gossip, social memory, the horror film, national identity and the cult of fame. An eclectic and intriguing look at one of the most maligned areas of television news, Tabloid Television offers some interesting speculation about where the news might be heading."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-183) and index.

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? Ritual, Tradition and the Past -- 8. Politics, Pleasures, 'Spin-offs' -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Fires, floods, celebrity lifestyles, heroic acts of humble people, and cute acts by family pets. Sensational news seems to take up an increasingly large part of contemporary broadcast journalism, but it is regularly dismissed as having no place on our screens. In Tabloid Television, John Langer argues that television's "other news" must be recognized as equally important as "hard news" in the building of a comprehensive study of broadcast journalism. Using narrative analysis, theories of ideology, concepts from genre studies and detailed textual readings, "other news" is explored as a cultural discourse connected with story- telling, gossip, social memory, the horror film, national identity and the cult of fame. An eclectic and intriguing look at one of the most maligned areas of television news, Tabloid Television offers some interesting speculation about where the news might be heading."--Publisher description.

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