News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780761968788)

Richly detailed and empirically grounded, this first book-length study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of this emerging phenomenon. Going beyond - both geographically and theoretically - the ′dumbing down′ discourse, largely confined to the Anglo-American media, the book argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which ′soft news′ masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.

Author: Daya Thussu
ISBN-10: 0761968784
ISBN-13: 9780761968788
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.24w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 259