Postman, Neil.

How to watch TV news / Neil Postman and Steve Powers. - New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1992. - xi, 178 p. ; 20 cm.

Includes index.

1. Are you watching television or is television watching you? - 2. What is news? - 3. Getting them into the electronic tent - 4. Donuts, big foot, mules, and the bird - 5. Behind the scenes: nuts and bolts - 6. The news director - 7. Reenactments and docudramas, or no news is still news - 8. the bias of language, the bias of pictures - 9. The commercial - 10. Television in the courtroom - 11. What does it all mean? - 12. What can you do? - Index.

0140132317 (pbk.) 9780140132311 (pbk.)


Television broadcasting of news--Social aspects.--United States
Television broadcasting of news--Psychological aspects.--United States
Content analysis (Communication)

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