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9780822314912

Cracked Coverage : Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822314912

  • ISBN10:

    0822314916

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-04-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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"This is a pathbreaking, often brilliant book that every journalist, 'drug expert,' and elected and unelected policy maker in the U. S. should be forced to read."--Craig Reinarman, University of California, Santa Cruz

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
A Note to Our Readersp. xiii
Introductionp. 1
Re-Covering the War on Drugsp. 13
The Cocaine Narrativep. 15
Merchants of Modern Discipline: The Drug Control Establishmentp. 35
Visualizing the Drug News: Journalistic Surveillance/Spectaclep. 48
Reaganism: The Packaging of Backlash Politicsp. 73
Interrogating the Cocaine Narrativep. 105
The Trickle-Down Paradigm: White Pow(d)er and Therapeutic Recoveryp. 107
The Siege Paradigm: Rewriting the Cocaine Narrativep. 129
Captivating Public Opinion: The Ventriloquist Turnp. 162
Family Matters: Nurturing Normalcy/Reproducing Delinquencyp. 184
Denouement: Second Thoughtsp. 218
Epilogue Spin-Offsp. 255
Cocaine Storiesp. 263
Noncocaine Storiesp. 270
Chronology of Kernel Events in the Cocaine Narrativep. 272
Notesp. 277
Indexp. 315
About the Authorsp. 330
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