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050 00 $aP92.U5$bB66 2008
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100 1 $aBowman, James,$d1948-
245 10 $aMedia madness :$bthe corruption of our political culture /$cJames Bowman.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bEncounter Books,$c℗♭2008.
300 $a133 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aBrief encounters
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 119-128) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Ideology, honor, and the media -- The illusions of "objectivity" and "professionalism" -- Taking us behind the scenes : feelings, failings, and foibles -- The language of hyperbole and the manufacture of reality -- Intelligence and status : the great scandal hunt -- The therapeutic model : root causes, vicious circles, and moral equivalence -- Conclusion : helping celebrities to bring utopia.
520 1 $a"Are journalists biased? Of course they are. But so are we all. What's remarkable about the members of the media is they must pretend not to be biased. In this book, the author and journalist James Bowman explains why the commercial needs of the media business require it to uphold a pretense of disinterest at all costs. This creates rhetorical habits that force public figures to inhabit a curious hermetic media reality: a world of hapless, incompetent, and scandal-ridden public men and women endlessly subject to the correction of all-knowing journalists. Those who inhabit this world are victims of "Media Madness," a kind of folie de grandeur which is no longer subject to the discipline of traditional cultural forces. It imagines the media's odd conventions, pretenses, and rhetorical tics - for instance, the assumption that the President of the United States is delusional and/or brainless, or that the publicly displayed feelings of pop stars and celebrities are prophylactics against global warming - are reality indeed. "Media Madness" can be amusing when confined to journalists, but as it increasingly infects politicians and others in public life, it has resulted in a political life characterized by empty gesture, incivility, and most seriously, paralysis."--Jacket.
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651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2001-2009.
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