News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment

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

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  Illustrated
  2009

  $5.79

  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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  Hardcover
  2008

  $206.58

  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.