News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment

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Hardcover
2008
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A study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers an analysis of this emerging phenomenon. It argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which 'soft news' masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.

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A study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers an analysis of this emerging phenomenon. It argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which 'soft news' masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.

$204.92

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 09 Jan 2008
ISBN 10: 0761968784
ISBN 13: 9780761968788