Tabloid Tales: Global Debates Over Media StandardsColin Sparks, John Tulloch Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 - 315 pagina's Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as Otabloidization.O 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 Odumbing downO or whether it is a necessary tactic for the mass media to engage with new audiences who do not have the news habit. Tabloid Tales will be of interest to students and scholars in journalism, mass communication, political science, and cultural and media studies. |
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The Panic over Tabloid News | 1 |
Are the Tabloids Taking Over? | 39 |
Political Space and the Trade in Television News | 41 |
Does Tabloidization Make German Local Newspapers Successful? | 61 |
Tabloidization in the British Press A Quantitative Investigation into Changes in British Newspapers 19521997 | 73 |
Thirty Years of Competition in the British Tabloid Press The Mirror and the Sun 19681998 | 89 |
The Development of the Tabloid Press in Hungary | 109 |
Tabloid Journalism in Perspective | 127 |
Tabloidized Political Coverage in the German BildZeitung | 175 |
Tabloidization Media Panics and Mad Cow Disease | 193 |
What Implications Does Tabloid Journalism Have for Society? | 209 |
Audience Demands in a Murderous Market Tabloidization in US Television News | 211 |
Literacy Seriousness and the Oprah Winfrey Book Club | 227 |
Rethinking Personalization in Current Affairs Journalism | 249 |
La Nota Roja Popular Journalism and the Transition to Democracy in Mexico | 265 |
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The Eternal Recurrence of New Journalism | 129 |
The Home and Family Section in the Japanese Newspaper | 145 |
Talking about the Tabloids Journalists Views | 161 |
Index | 299 |
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