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What is Media Madness : the Corruption of Our Political Culture about?
Are Journalists Biased? Of Course They Are. But So Are We All. What's Remarkable About The Members Of The Media Is They Must Pretend Not To Be Biased. In This Book, The Author And Journalist James Bowman Explains Why The Commercial Needs Of The Media Business Require It To Uphold A Pretense Of Disinterest At All Costs. This Creates Rhetorical Habits That Force Public Figures To Inhabit A Curious Hermetic Media Reality: A World Of Hapless, Incompetent, And Scandal-ridden Public Men And Women Endlessly Subject To The Correction Of All-knowing Journalists. Those Who Inhabit This World Are Victims Of Media Madness, A Kind Of Folie De Grandeur Which Is No Longer Subject To The Discipline Of Traditional Cultural Forces. It Imagines The Media's Odd Conventions, Pretenses, And Rhetorical Tics - For Instance, The Assumption That The President Of The United States Is Delusional And/or Brainless, Or That The Publicly Displayed Feelings Of Pop Stars And Celebrities Are Prophylactics Against Global Warming - Are Reality Indeed. Media Madness Can Be Amusing When Confined To Journalists, But As It Increasingly Infects Politicians And Others In Public Life, It Has Resulted In A Political Life Char
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- Author
- Bowman, James, 1948-
- Publisher
- New York: Encounter Books
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781594032127
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Sociology, Political Science
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14