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The Conservative Resurgence and the Press

The Media's Role in the Rise of the Right

By: James Brian McPherson

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The Conservative Resurgence and the Press

The Media's Role in the Rise of the Right

By: James Brian McPherson

Consumers of American media find themselves in a news world that has shifted toward more conservative reporting. This book takes a measured, historical view of the shift, addressing factors that include the greater skill with which conservatives have used the media, the media’s gradual trend toward conservatism, the role of religion, and the effects of media conglomeration. The book makes the case that the media have managed to not only enable today’s conservative resurgence but also ignore, largely, the consequences of that change for the American people.

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336

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Northwestern University Press

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0810123320

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9780810123328

Journalism at the End of the American Century, 1965-Present

By: James Brian McPherson

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Journalism at the End of the American Century, 1965-Present

By: James Brian McPherson

McPherson captures the best and worst aspects of American journalism since 1965. The press has evolved into a conglomeration of entities, that today can be described as pervasive, entertaining, and justifiably mistrusted. In some ways, today's press offers the best journalism Americans have ever seen. In other ways, the modern news media fall short of the ideals held by most of those who care about journalism, and far short of the promise they once seemed to offer in terms of helping create an enlightened democracy. Neither a paean to the press nor an exercise in media bashing, this book finds much to criticize and to praise about recent American journalism, while illustrating that traditional journalistic values have diminished in importance — not just for many of those who control the media, but also for the media consumers who most need good journalism. Chapters are devoted to various themes that include social unrest, the influence of entertainment values, technological shifts, media consolidation and corporatization, issues of content versus context, new kinds of news media, and why the 1970s may have been the high point of American journalism. Events and issues given extra attention include the rise of television news (and later CNN), the Civil Rights Movement and other race-related issues, the Women's Movement, various forms of alternative journalism, wars in Vietnam and Iraq, investigative journalism, the World Trade Center attacks, the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns and elections, civic journalism, and journalism scandals.

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256

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313083983

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9780313083983

Heat

By: Nick James

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Heat

By: Nick James

Robert de Niro and Al Pacino have acted opposite each other once, and that was in Heat, Michael Mann's operatic 1995 heist thriller. De Niro is Neil McCauley, a skilled professional thief at the centre of a tight-knit criminal team; Pacino is Vincent Hanna, the haunted, driven cop determined to hunt him down. Boasting a series of meticulously orchestrated setpieces that underline Mann's sense of scale and architecture, Heat is also a rhapsody to Los Angeles as Hanna closes in on his prey. For Nick James, the pleasures and virtues of Heat are mixed and complex. Its precise compositions and minimalist style are entangled with a particular kind of extravagant bombast. And while its vision of male teamwork is richly compelling it comes close to glorifying machismo. But these complexities only add to the interest of this hugely ambitious and accomplished film, which confirmed Mann's place in the front rank of American film-makers.

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136

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838716092

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9781838716097

Sport Americana Series

Alphabetical Baseball Card Checklist No. 4

By: James Beckett

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Sport Americana Series

Alphabetical Baseball Card Checklist No. 4

By: James Beckett

Lists all of the baseball cards printed for each professional baseball player, including minor league players, team cards, and world series cards.

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452

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Edgewater Books

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0937424455

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9780937424452

Introduction to Information Systems

Essentials for the Internetworked Enterprise

By: James A. O'Brien

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Introduction to Information Systems

Essentials for the Internetworked Enterprise

By: James A. O'Brien

This work examines a five-level framework that is used to describe the stages of information systems development. It has been revised to reflect the movement towards enterprise-wide business, and looks at the major topics covered in a first course.

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McGraw-Hill Companies

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0072297492

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9780072297492

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The Conservative Resurgence and the Press

The Conservative Resurgence and the Press

Journalism at the End of the American Century, 1965-Present

Journalism at the End of the American Century, 1965-Present

Heat

Heat

Sport Americana Series

Sport Americana Series

Introduction to Information Systems

Introduction to Information Systems

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