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  How to Watch TV News (Paperback) By (author) Neil Postman, By (author) Steve Powers

  

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  Short Description for How to Watch TV NewsAn 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.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Published: 01 July 2008
  • Format: Paperback 178 pages
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  • Categories: Television | Journalistic Style Guides | Media Studies
  • ISBN 13: 9780143113775 ISBN 10: 0143113771
  • Sales rank: 147,328

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• 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.