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The language of journalism. Volume 3, Media warfare : the Americanization of language / Melvin J. Lasky.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 365 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 141280728X
  • 9781412807289
  • 076580302X
  • 9780765803023
Other title:
  • Media warfare [Portion of title]
  • Media warfare : The Americanization of language [Portion of title]
  • Americanization of language [Portion of title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.4014 22
LOC classification:
  • PN4783.L37 M4 2005
Contents:
Pt. 1. Intermezzo : Robert Burton's melancholy dilemma : journalism without newspapers -- 1. The universal assignment -- 2. The journalistic imagination -- 3. Reporting murder, observing the world -- 4. From More to Tyndale to Burton -- 5. Euphuistic euphoria -- 6. In dreams begin irresponsibilities -- 7. Secret expletives -- 8. Across the centuries -- 9. Mentoning the unmentionable -- Pt. 2. The orgasm that failed -- 10. The swinging pendulum -- 11. Searching for an immoral equivalent -- Pt. 3. The perception of American words -- 12. Feisty to funky to flaky -- 13. Godperson and other funny talk -- 14. Perception uncleansed -- 15. Hillary, and getting the perception right -- Pt. 4. A journalist gets serious : in P.G. Wodehouse's "Noo Yawk" -- 16. The birth of a crusader -- 17. Facts, from Homer to Kafka (Elmore Leonard) -- 18. Jewish gangsters and the East Side story -- 19. Was this how things really were? -- Pt. 5. In the crossfire of the media wars -- 20. Spin doctors and other quacks -- 21. Images of violence, words of war -- 22. How not to report a war (Lebanon 1982) -- 23. Interchangeable tragedy -- 24. Of realities and Realpolitik -- 25. Spielberg, or the Hollywood scapegoat -- 26. Journalism and Jewry -- 27. White House storm, or "hurricane Monica" -- Pt. 6. Intimations of a post-profane era -- 28. A curse on Boyle's law -- 29. Scholem's nouns and verbs -- 30. Robert Graves, or the vision of a post-profane era -- 31. Counter-revolution and utopia.
Summary: "Media Warfare pays particular attention to the gradual easing and near disappearance of censorship rules in the 1960s and after and the attendant effects on electronic and print media. In lively and irreverent prose, Melvin J. Lasky anatomizes the dilemmas posed by the entrance of formerly "unmentionable" subjects into daily journalistic discourse, whether for reasons of profit or accurate reporting. He details the pervasive and often indirect influence of the worlds of fashion and advertising on journalism with their imperatives of sensationalism and novelty and, by contrast, how the freeing of language and subject matter in literature - the novels of Joyce and Lawrence, the poetry of Philip Larkin - have affected permissible expression for good or ill."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Intermezzo : Robert Burton's melancholy dilemma : journalism without newspapers -- 1. The universal assignment -- 2. The journalistic imagination -- 3. Reporting murder, observing the world -- 4. From More to Tyndale to Burton -- 5. Euphuistic euphoria -- 6. In dreams begin irresponsibilities -- 7. Secret expletives -- 8. Across the centuries -- 9. Mentoning the unmentionable -- Pt. 2. The orgasm that failed -- 10. The swinging pendulum -- 11. Searching for an immoral equivalent -- Pt. 3. The perception of American words -- 12. Feisty to funky to flaky -- 13. Godperson and other funny talk -- 14. Perception uncleansed -- 15. Hillary, and getting the perception right -- Pt. 4. A journalist gets serious : in P.G. Wodehouse's "Noo Yawk" -- 16. The birth of a crusader -- 17. Facts, from Homer to Kafka (Elmore Leonard) -- 18. Jewish gangsters and the East Side story -- 19. Was this how things really were? -- Pt. 5. In the crossfire of the media wars -- 20. Spin doctors and other quacks -- 21. Images of violence, words of war -- 22. How not to report a war (Lebanon 1982) -- 23. Interchangeable tragedy -- 24. Of realities and Realpolitik -- 25. Spielberg, or the Hollywood scapegoat -- 26. Journalism and Jewry -- 27. White House storm, or "hurricane Monica" -- Pt. 6. Intimations of a post-profane era -- 28. A curse on Boyle's law -- 29. Scholem's nouns and verbs -- 30. Robert Graves, or the vision of a post-profane era -- 31. Counter-revolution and utopia.

"Media Warfare pays particular attention to the gradual easing and near disappearance of censorship rules in the 1960s and after and the attendant effects on electronic and print media. In lively and irreverent prose, Melvin J. Lasky anatomizes the dilemmas posed by the entrance of formerly "unmentionable" subjects into daily journalistic discourse, whether for reasons of profit or accurate reporting. He details the pervasive and often indirect influence of the worlds of fashion and advertising on journalism with their imperatives of sensationalism and novelty and, by contrast, how the freeing of language and subject matter in literature - the novels of Joyce and Lawrence, the poetry of Philip Larkin - have affected permissible expression for good or ill."--BOOK JACKET.

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