How to watch TV news /
Neil Postman and Steve Powers ; with new and updated material by Steve Powers.
- Rev. ed.
- New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 2008.
- xiii, 178 p. ; 20 cm.
Includes index.
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?
"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.
9780143113775 0143113771
2008015156
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