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How to Watch TV News Paperback - 2008

by Neil Postman; Steve Powers

An important guide to understanding what you're getting--and not getting--from TV news. Postman and Powers warn that anyone who relies exclusively on TV for a knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake and suggest ways to intelligently evaluate TV news shows.


Summary

A scathing and prescient look at television news?now updated for the new tech-savvy generation

Television news : genuine information or entertainment fodder? Fifteen years ago, Neil Postman, a pioneer in media education and author of the bestselling Amusing Ourselves to Death, and Steve Powers, an award-winning broadcast journalist, concluded that anyone who relies exclusively on their television for accurate world news is making a big mistake. A cash cow laden with money from advertisers, so-called news shows glut viewers with celebrity coverage at the cost of things they really should know. Today, this message is still appallingly true but the problems have multiplied? along with the power of the Internet and the abundance of cable channels. A must-read for anyone concerned with the way media is manipulating our worldview, this newly revised edition addresses the evolving technology and devolving quality of America?s television news programming.

From the publisher

Neil Postman (1931–2003) was chairman of the Department of Communication Arts at New York University and founder of its Media Ecology program. He wrote more than twenty books.

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  • Title How to Watch TV News
  • Author Neil Postman; Steve Powers
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 2008-07-01
  • Features Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780143113775 / 0143113771
  • Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.79 x 5.07 x 0.5 in (19.79 x 12.88 x 1.27 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Content analysis (Communication), Television broadcasting of news - United
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008015156
  • Dewey Decimal Code 070.195

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2009, Page 271

About the author

Neil Postman (1931-2003) was chairman of the Department of Communication Arts at New York University and founder of its Media Ecology program. He wrote more than twenty books.
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