Republic of Denial / Orcutt Frost.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frost, Orcutt, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Press and politics--Political aspects--United States.

Press and politics.

Journalism--United States.

Journalism.

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This thought-provoking book offers the most insightful critique of the relationship among the press, politics, and public life in decades. Disdain for politics today in the United States is almost universal. Condemnation of the press is rampant as well. Until we understand the modern condition of politics and journalism-and the cultural context in which they interact-says Michael Janeway, there's small hope of either recovering its standing. Drawing on years of experience at the top levels of the news business and in politics and government, Janeway provides an integrated, insider's critique of the profound changes in each of these professional worlds, showing how trends in each have contributed to deepening public alienation.From its confident post-World War Two era of world leadership, the United States entered a difficult period of turbulence and reversals in the 1960s and 1970s. With wit, clarity, and an eye for offbeat cultural indicators, Janeway examines the full complex of forces that have corroded our press, politics, and public life since then. The result, he argues, is a loss of substance and structure in public life as well as citizen connection to it, a vacuum all too easily filled by political entertainers, shallow coverage of "character," and-engulfing the nation in convulsive crisis for a year of its history-the politics of scandal.None of today's proposed remedies for the failings of our press or politcal system is adequate, Janeway argues, for none take full account of the integral relationship between the two spheres. In the absence of recognition of its buried democratic crisis, Janeway concludes, the United States has become a "republic of denial."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: A Story of Our Time

One. "Let's Remember the Energy"

Two. And Then...

Three. Malaise

Four. Structure

Five. Character

Six. Private Lives

Seven. Bottom Line

Eight. Managing

Nine. Trying Something

Ten. Hamilton and Jefferson

Eleven. Therefore...

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300144840

0300144849

OCLC:

1013951619