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100 1 _aLasky, Melvin J.,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aProfanity, obscenity & the media :
_bbeing a second volume, wherein the language of journalism is examined, its splendours and miseries, including clichès and trivia, sensationalism and prurience, wit and witlessness, fiction and faction, pseudery and jabberwocky, scoops and hoaxes, racism and sexism, profanity and obscenity, virtue and reality, culture and anarchy - and the abuse of slang, style, and the habits of writing good prose /
_cMelvin J. Lasky.
246 3 _aProfanity, obscenity and the media
246 1 3 _aLanguage of journalism.
_nVolume 2
264 1 _aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :
_bTransaction ;
_aLondon :
_bEurospan,
_c2005.
300 _axxiv, 339 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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505 0 0 _tIntroduction --
_gPart 1.
_tTowards a Theory of Journalistic Malpractice --
_g1.
_tFrom A. N. Whitehead to Irving Kristol --
_tIllusions and Self-Deception --
_tHard Facts and Soft Future --
_tAdversarial Culture --
_t"Sensations": From Silent Images to Talking Picture --
_tArt News and New Art --
_tOf Nihilism and Mendacity --
_g2.
_tThe Little Lie and the Big Story --
_tHitler's Hoax --
_tThe Counterfeiter's Fiction --
_tMysteries of the Piltdown Forgery --
_g3.
_tDifficulties in Grappling with Reality --
_tThe Reporter Rearranges the Scene --
_tJanet Cooke and the Color of Truth --
_tThe Duping of Hersh's "Camelot" --
_tMartin Walser's "Catechism of Correctness" --
_g4.
_tThe New Shamanism --
_gPart 2.
_tSex and Other Ongoing Titillations --
_g5.
_tThe Ennui of Obscenity --
_tBetween Sexual Virility and Erotic Fatigue --
_tLow Notes in High C --
_tA-Word to S-Word, and their Synonyms --
_tOf Ideology and Scatology --
_tThe Snafu Known as Swag --
_tFilling Out the Missing Details --
_tPrivate Parts, Public Lives --
_tAlphabet Soup --
_tMr. Bloomberg's "$!*@&" --
_g6.
_t"O Propheta" --
_tThe Last Refuge --
_tPorno Ploys and Crackable Codes --
_tA*c*c*o*m*p*l*i*c*e*s, or: Participatory Obscenity --
_tSteiner and Burgess On "Love" --
_g7.
_tChaucer and a Choice of Taboo Words --
_g8.
_tStrong Odors, Blurred Pictures --
_g9.
_tObsessions with the S-Word --
_g10.
_tThe Case of the Missing F**r-L****r Word --
_g11.
_tAsterisks: From Byron to Madonna --
_g12.
_tWho's Afraid of the Big, Bad F-Word? --
_g13.
_tTiger, the Times, and a Dreaded Black Asterisk --
_g14.
_tMorphing the A-Word --
_g15.
_tTerms of Agreement and Endearment --
_g16.
_tThe Mergenthaler Option --
_g17.
_tA Matter of Illegitimacy --
_g18.
_tThe Guard that Failed --
_g19.
_tThe Desperate Search for "the Good Bits" --
_tSporting Language --
_tTom Jones and the Language Police --
_g20.
_tSwearing is the Curse --
_gPart 3.
_tLiterary Origins and Popular Consequences --
_g21.
_tSources of Malpractice --
_g22.
_tFrom Wordsworth to Orwell and Hemingway --
_g23.
_tThe Prose We Write and Speak --
_g24.
_tDealing with the Grandmother Tongue --
_tThe Continuing Domestication of Yiddishisms --
_tLeo Rosten's Gallimaufry --
_g25.
_tQuotations that were Unquoted --
_g26.
_tDirty Realism in the White House and Beyond --
_g27.
_tTowards a Vocabulary of Pop Diplomacy --
_tNotes --
_tIndex.
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