Sound and Fury : The Making of the Punditocracy / Eric Alterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alterman, Eric, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Media Studies.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Media Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Revised Edition

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

For this new edition, Eric Alterman has made revisions throughout the book, with new material on the impact of the O. J. Simpson trial and the rise of MSNBC as well as on the Clinton scandals, the media's obsession with Monica Lewinsky, and the resulting conflation of investigative reporting with gossip.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

SECTION ONE. THE BIRTH OF A NOTION

1. The Road to Lippmanndom

2. Lippmanndom

3. Post-Lippmanndom: The Rest and the Rightest

SECTION TWO. THE REAGAN PUNDITOCRACY

4. The Triumph of George Will

5. Attack of the McLaughlinites

6. All the Views Fit to Print

7. Glass Houses and Revolving Doors

8. We Are the Wild Men

9. Even the New Republic ...

SECTION THREE. CONSEQUENCES: THE BUSH AND CLINTON YEARS

10. The Man with No New Ideas

11. Operation Pundit Shield

12. Operation Pundit Storm

13. All Monica, All the Time

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781501740985

1501740989

OCLC:

1110712401