Author: Diamond, Edwin
Title: The Media Show: The Changing Face of the News, 1985-1990
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (1991). orig.cloth. 21x14cm, xiv,230 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Structures: Television under Glasnost: Letterman meets Lenin; Downsizing the News; Behind the Peacock Throne; Face of the News: The Vanishing Documentary; Anchor War; CNN: The News on Demand; The Education of Diane & Sam; Case Studies: AIDS, Sex & "Good Taste": Practicing Unsafe Journalism; Celebrity Journalism; High on Crack; Race, Class & Crime: The Brawley Mess; The Central Park Jogger; Romancing the Don; Terrorvision: Taking the Camera Hostage; Seeing Red: Images of the USSR; Mistaken Identities: The United States & Japan; The Unknockables; Gotcha! The Media as Moral Police; Campaign '88: Onward & Downward; The Yawn of a New Day; Perestroika: The Incurious Eye; The Camera Never (Admits that It) Blinks; You Saw It here First.

Keywords: Mass Communications, Broadcasting, United States, Television, Media Criticism, Social History, , ,