Tabloid Television

Tabloid Television
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 208
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781134920112
ISBN-13 : 1134920113
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Tabloid Television by : John Langer

Download or read book Tabloid Television written by John Langer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fires, floods, accidents, celebrity lifestyles, heroic acts of humble people, cute acts by family pets and the weather. Television's non-news about non-events takes up an increasingly large part of contemporary broadcast journalism, but is regularly dismissed by television pundits as having no place on our screens. To its critics, this 'other news' distracts our attention with trivialities and entertainment values, and undermines journalism's relationship with the workings of democracy. Yet, in spite of these protests, this 'lite news' remains as entrenched and as popular as ever. InTabloid Television, John Langer argues that television's 'other news' must be recognised as equally important as 'hard news' in the building of a genuinely comprehensive study of broadcast journalism. Using narrative analysis, theories of ideology, concepts from genre studies and detailed textual readings, 'other news' is explored as a cultural discourse connected with story-telling, gossip, social memory, the horror film, national identity and the cult of fame. Langer's study also examines the political role played by an allegedly non-political news and explores the links between this type of news and recent broadcasting trends towards 'reality television'. Tabloid Television, Popular Journalism and the 'Other News' provides an eclectic and intriguing look at one of the most maligned areas of television news. By offering an extended and thoroughly grounded analysis of actual news stories, John Langer locates the question of representational power as one of the central concerns of the media studies agenda and offers some interesting speculation about where television news may be heading.


Tabloid Television Related Books

Tabloid Television
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: John Langer
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-10-19 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Fires, floods, accidents, celebrity lifestyles, heroic acts of humble people, cute acts by family pets and the weather. Television's non-news about non-events t
Tabloid Television
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Kevin Thomas Glynn
Categories: Reality television programs
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Tabloid Culture
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Kevin Glynn
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An examination of the rise of tabloid television and the political, cultural, and technological changes that have enabled its success.
Politics, Society, and the Media
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: Paul Wingfield Nesbitt-Larking
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Nesbitt-Larking challenges his readers to become critical consumers of media and provides a number of strategies to encourage them to do so." - Nick Baxter-Moo
Reality TV
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Annette Hill
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Psychology Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Drawing on quantitative and qualitative audience research to understand how viewers categorize the reality genre. From Animal Hospital to Big Brother, this book