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Title: On Television by Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson ISBN: 1-56584-512-9 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Critique on Journalism
Comment: Bourdieu's book, which is actually a lecture transcibed, is a look into the world of journalism on print and on television. Print, now being rivaled by the television news casthas to follow the steps in which television provides the material and the print media has to be there to create a uniformity in competition. If one veers, then people are unsure of what to read, and given the times and the message Bourdieu is giving, I would assume most would follow the TV news. The title of the book might be misleading in that its more about journalism than television itself. The author makes many profound obsevations as well as unveiling some of the competition that actually goes on in journalism where he asks the question "Where does news come from?" Answering quite plainly that the journalists do indeed choose what is news, and what isn't. A good read, a short book, however at some points dense and other points dry and repetitive. Overall highly reccomended for those interested in media theory.
Rating: 5
Summary: A devastating critique of television journalism.
Comment: Turn off your television set for an hour to read this book, and then see if, after finishing it, you feel like turning the set back on. Bourdieu, a French sociologist and one of the world's leading intellectuals, has performed a profound critique of what nowadays passes for journalism, both on television and, increasingly, off it as well. The main body of Bourdieu's text was originally given as lectures and is accessible and stimulating to any concerned reader. The translation is excellent and the endnotes are helpful in defining the French context of Bourdieu's remarks. Highly recommended, especially to anyone who practices journalism in any medium.
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Title: Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market by Pierre Bourdieu, Loic Wacquant ISBN: 1565847385 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 12 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market by Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice ISBN: 1565845234 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis by Philip Hammond, Edward S. Herman ISBN: 074531631X Publisher: Pluto Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Social Construction of Reality : A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann, Thomas Luckmann ISBN: 0385058985 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 11 July, 1967 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election by Douglas Kellner ISBN: 0742521036 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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