The Sound Bite Society: How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left

by Jeffrey Scheuer

Overview

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138178984
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/23/2016
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeffrey Scheuer writes about politics and media. His criticism and commentary has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and Dissent. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

	Introduction: the Politics of Electronic Information	1
Chapter I	The Ascent of the Electronic right	25
Chapter II	Shouting Heads: the Language of Television	61
Chapter III	Video Games: Television and Reality	91
Chapter IV	Complexity and Ideology	121
Chapter V	Critical Vision: Television and the Attentive Society	161
	Notes	193
	Selected Bibliography	225

Editorial Reviews

Breaks new intellectual ground...deeply incisive.

Chicago Tribune

Valuable... —Washington Monthly

James Fallows

The most searching book I have seen on television's assault on our psyches and our society. Scheuer emerges as not only a first-rank scholar of the media but a philosopher of the media. —National Public Radio

Daniel Schorr

Thoughtful, in many ways amazing. Part polemic and part rainbow of dazzling insights. —The Nation

Victor Navasky

Beautifully written and powerfully argued....social criticism of the best kind.

Michael Walzer

"...refreshing. Whatever your political persuasion, however, The Sound Bite Society offers an interesting... take on what shapes the politics of television." -- NationalJournal.com
"Irrespective of whether one fully agrees with Scheuer's thesis, [The Sound Bite Society] will be very useful in stimulating active discussion in classes dealing with political communication and the media." -- Susan Tyler Eastman, Communication Booknotes Quarterly
"... a true intellectual discourse, an essay in the realm of ideas." -- The Jerusalem Post
"Thoughtful, in many ways amazing. Part polemic and part rainbow of dazzling insights." -- Victor Navasky, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Nation
"The most searching book I have seen on television's assault on our psyches and our society. Scheuer emerges as not only a first-rank scholar of the media but a philosopher of the media." -- Daniel Schorr, Senior Analyst, National Public Radio
"Beautifully written and powerfully argued...social criticism of the best kind." -- Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study
"Breaks new intellectual ground...deeply incisive." -- Chicago Tribune
"Valuable..." -- James Fallows, Washington Monthly
"Exceptional...unusually well-argued and supported." -- The Eye, Toronto
"An insightful but profoundly unsettling volume." -- Dissent
"Scheuer aims to intrigue and provoke and he does [so] on every page." -- Boston Review

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