News as Entertainment
：The Rise of Global Infotainment
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Publication subTitle ：The Rise of Global Infotainment
Publication series ：1
Publisher： Sage Publications Ltd
Publication year： 2008
E-ISBN: 9781847875068
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780761968795
Subject： H0 Linguistics
Keyword： 语言学
Language： ENG
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Description
Richly detailed and empirically grounded, this first book-length study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of this emerging phenomenon. Going beyond - both geographically and theoretically - the 'dumbing down' discourse, largely confined to the Anglo-American media, the book argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which 'soft news' masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.