{"product_id":"from-cronkite-to-colbert-geoffrey-baym-9780199945849","title":"From Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News","description":"With increasing numbers of people tuning out the nightly news and media consumption falling, late-night comedians have become some of the most important newscasters in the country. \u003cem\u003eFrom Cronkite to Colbert\u003c\/em\u003e explains why. It examines a historical path that begins at the height of the network age with Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow--when the evening news was considered the authoritative record of the day's events and forged our assumptions about what \"the news\" is, or should be. The book then winds its way through the breakdown of the paradigm of \"real\" news and into its reinvention in the unlikely form of such shows as \u003cem\u003eThe Daily Show\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Colbert Report\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eFrom Cronkite to Colbert\u003c\/em\u003e makes the case that rather than \"fake news,\" these shows should be understood as a new kind of journalism, one that has the potential to save the news and reinvigorate the conversation on democracy in today's society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2010 NCA Award for Outstanding Book in Political Communication! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFEATURES \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eBL Uses a tripartite analytical framework for tracking the history of broadcast news from Cronkite to Colbert: high modern, postmodern, and neomodern \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBL Puts recent media developments in context with intellectual and philosophical history including the writings of Wittgenstein, Bahktin, and Foucault \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBL Explains the concept and action of \"media convergence\" clearly and critically \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBL Looks at the \"post network\" age in news history and illustrates the problems and possibilities of the era of \"digital instability\" in which many media platforms--cable, satellite, internet, smart phones, and more--converge to create a new \"life after TV\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBL Plays with now familiar media images--Ted Koppel's \"big head;\" Jon Stewart's repetitive clip technique; Stephen Colbert's \"The Word\" feature--in order to illustrate media postmodernity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geoffrey Baym\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199945845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199945849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Geoffrey Baym","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46795323900159,"sku":"9780199945849","price":58.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2279ee7f-feea-458d-a35e-9196f9233782.jpg?v=1744947251","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-cronkite-to-colbert-geoffrey-baym-9780199945849","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}