News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment

News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment

by Daya Kishan Thussu (Author), Daya Kishan Thussu (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 224
Edition: 1
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 09 Mar 2009

ISBN 10: 0761968792
ISBN 13: 9780761968795