The language of journalism. the Americanization of language / Volume 3, Media warfare :
Media warfare Media warfare : The Americanization of language Americanization of language
Melvin J. Lasky.
- 365 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intermezzo : Robert Burton's melancholy dilemma : journalism without newspapers -- The universal assignment -- The journalistic imagination -- Reporting murder, observing the world -- From More to Tyndale to Burton -- Euphuistic euphoria -- In dreams begin irresponsibilities -- Secret expletives -- Across the centuries -- Mentoning the unmentionable -- The orgasm that failed -- The swinging pendulum -- Searching for an immoral equivalent -- The perception of American words -- Feisty to funky to flaky -- Godperson and other funny talk -- Perception uncleansed -- Hillary, and getting the perception right -- A journalist gets serious : in P.G. Wodehouse's "Noo Yawk" -- The birth of a crusader -- Facts, from Homer to Kafka (Elmore Leonard) -- Jewish gangsters and the East Side story -- Was this how things really were? -- In the crossfire of the media wars -- Spin doctors and other quacks -- Images of violence, words of war -- How not to report a war (Lebanon 1982) -- Interchangeable tragedy -- Of realities and Realpolitik -- Spielberg, or the Hollywood scapegoat -- Journalism and Jewry -- White House storm, or "hurricane Monica" -- Intimations of a post-profane era -- A curse on Boyle's law -- Scholem's nouns and verbs -- Robert Graves, or the vision of a post-profane era -- Counter-revolution and utopia. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Pt. 2. 10. 11. Pt. 3. 12. 13. 14. 15. Pt. 4. 16. 17. 18. 19. Pt. 5. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. Pt. 6. 28. 29. 30. 31.
"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.
141280728X 9781412807289 076580302X 9780765803023
Journalism--Language Journalism--Language--United States. Journalism--Social aspects Language and culture.