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9781594515545

From Cronkite to Colbert : The Evolution of Broadcast News

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    9781594515545

  • ISBN10:

    1594515549

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-09-30
  • Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr

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In a time when increasing numbers of people are tuning out the nightly news and media consumption is falling, the late-night comedians have become some of the most important newscasters in the country. From Cronkite to Colbertexplains why. It examines an historical path that begins at the height of the network age with Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, when the evening news was considered the authoritative record of the day's events and forged our assumptions about what 'œthe news' is, or should be. The book then winds its way through the breakdown of that paradigm of 'œreal' news and into its reinvention in the unlikely form of such popularized shows as The Daily Showand The Colbert Report. From Cronkite to Colbertmakes the case that rather than 'œfake news,' those shows should be understood as a new kind of journalism, one that has the potential to save the news and reinvigorate the conversation of democracy in today's society.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Baym is Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He has written extensively on the changing styles and standards of news media and political discourse. He has worked as a newswriter, reporter, and researcher for media outlets such as the CBS Network News, KSL Television in Salt Lake City, and the Tucson Citizen.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Jon Stewart, Brian Williams, and Ted Koppel's Giant Headp. 1
Representing Realityp. 25
Publicizing Politicsp. 43
The Slow Death of CBS Newsp. 61
News from Somewhere: Hybrid Blends in the Multichannel Erap. 79
The Daily Show and the Reinvention of Political Journalismp. 101
"Nothing I'm Saying Means Anything": Stephen Colbert and the New Language of Public Affairsp. 123
Networked News: Stewart, Colbert, and the New Public Spherep. 145
Real News, Fake News, and the Conversation of Democracyp. 165
Notesp. 177
Indexp. 191
About the Authorp. 197
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