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Tabloid Tales
Global Debates over Media Standards
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2000
Summary
Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as Otabloidization.O The essays in this book are the first serious scholarly studies of what is going on and what its implications are. Reality, it turns out, is much more complex than some of the laments suggest. As the contributors show, this is not just a U.S. problem but is repeated in country after country, and it is not certain that the media anywhere are getting more tabloid. What is more, there is no consensus about whether tabloidization is just Odumbing downO or whether it is a necessary tactic for the mass media to engage with new audiences who do not have the news habit. Tabloid Tales will be of interest to students and scholars in journalism, mass communication, political science, and cultural and media studies.
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Copyright year
2000
ISBN-Print
978-0-8476-9571-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4385-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
315
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Foreword Barbie Zelizer No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: The Panic over Tabloid News Colin Sparks No access Pages 1 - 40
1. Political Space and the Trade in Television News Andrew Calabrese No access
2. Does Tabloidization Make German Local Newspapers Successful? Klaus Schönbach No access
3. Tabloidization in the British Press: A Quantitative Investigation into Changes in British Newspapers, 1952–1997 Shelley McLachlan and Peter Golding No access
4. Thirty Years of Competition in the British Tabloid Press: The Mirror and the Sun 1968–1998 Dick Rooney No access
5. The Development of the Tabloid Press in Hungary Ágnes Gulyás No access
6. The Eternal Recurrence of New Journalism John Tulloch No access
7. The "Home and Family" Section in the Japanese Newspaper Kaori Hayashi No access
8. Talking about the Tabloids: Journalists' Views Mathieu M. Rhoufari No access
9. Tabloidized Political Coverage in the German Bild-Zeitung Ulrike Klein No access
10. Tabloidization, Media Panics, and Mad Cow Disease Rod Brookes No access
11. Audience Demands in a Murderous Market: Tabloidization in U.S. Television News S. Elizabeth Bird No access
12. Literacy, Seriousness, and the Oprah Winfrey Book Club Janice Peck No access
13. Rethinking Personalization in Current Affairs Journalism Myra Macdonald No access
14. La Nota Roja: Popular Journalism and the Transition to Democracy in Mexico Daniel C. Hallin No access
15. Tabloidization, Popular Journalism, and Democracy Jostein Gripsrud No access
Index No access Pages 301 - 312
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 313 - 315
