Tabloid tales : global debates over media studies / edited by Colin Sparks and John Tulloch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sparks, Colin, 1947-

Tulloch, John, 1946-

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Critical media studies.

Critical media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sensationalism in journalism.

Sensationalism on television.

Tabloid newspapers.

Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects.

Journalistic ethics.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2000.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as 'tabloidization.' 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 'dumbing down' or whether it is a

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword Barbie Zelizer; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Panic over Tabloid News Colin Sparks; Part One: Are the Tabloids Taking Over?; 1. Political Space and the Trade in Television News Andrew Calabrese; 2. Does Tabloidization Make German Local Newspapers Successful? Klaus Schönbach; 3. Tabloidization in the British Press: A Quantitative Investigation into Changes in British Newspapers, 1952-1997 Shelley McLachlan and Peter Golding; 4. Thirty Years of Competition in the British Tabloid Press: The Mirror and the Sun 1968-1998 Dick Rooney

5. The Development of the Tabloid Press in Hungary Ágnes GulyásPart Two: Tabloid Journalism in Perspective; 6. The Eternal Recurrence of New Journalism John Tulloch; 7. The ""Home and Family"" Section in the Japanese Newspaper Kaori Hayashi; 8. Talking about the Tabloids: Journalists' Views Mathieu M. Rhoufari; 9. Tabloidized Political Coverage in the German Bild-Zeitung Ulrike Klein; 10. Tabloidization, Media Panics, and Mad Cow Disease Rod Brookes; Part Three: What Implications Does Tabloid Journalism Have for Society?

11. Audience Demands in a Murderous Market: Tabloidization in U.S. Television News S. Elizabeth Bird12. Literacy, Seriousness, and the Oprah Winfrey Book Club Janice Peck; 13. Rethinking Personalization in Current Affairs Journalism Myra Macdonald; 14. La Nota Roja: Popular Journalism and the Transition to Democracy in Mexico Daniel C. Hallin; 15. Tabloidization, Popular Journalism, and Democracy Jostein Gripsrud; Index; About the Editors and Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-41045-4

9798765180976

0-8476-9571-9

1-4616-4385-6

OCLC:

854977794