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How to watch TV news / Neil Postman and Steve Powers ; with new and updated material by Steve Powers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 2008.Edition: Rev. edDescription: xiii, 178 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780143113775
  • 0143113771
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.43
LOC classification:
  • PN 4888 P858h 2008
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Contents:
Are you watching television, or is television watching you? -- What is news? -- Getting them into the electronic tent -- Donuts, Big Foot, mules and the bird -- Behind the scenes: nuts and bolts -- The news director -- Reenactments and docudramas, or no news is still news -- The bias of language, the bias of pictures -- The commercial -- Television in the courtroom -- What does it all mean? -- What can you do? -- Where do we go from here?
Summary: "This newly revised book reveals the shocking ways in which media is manipulating our worldview - and bombarding America's television viewers with misinformation."--Book jacket.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 4888 P858h 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000095684

Are you watching television, or is television watching you? -- What is news? -- Getting them into the electronic tent -- Donuts, Big Foot, mules and the bird -- Behind the scenes: nuts and bolts -- The news director -- Reenactments and docudramas, or no news is still news -- The bias of language, the bias of pictures -- The commercial -- Television in the courtroom -- What does it all mean? -- What can you do? -- Where do we go from here?

Includes index.

"This newly revised book reveals the shocking ways in which media is manipulating our worldview - and bombarding America's television viewers with misinformation."--Book jacket.

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