News as Entertainment : The Rise of Global Infotainment
, by Daya Kishan ThussuNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780761968795 | 0761968792
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/18/2009
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.