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<p>During the latter half of the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, television talk shows, infotainment news, and screaming supermarket headlines became ubiquitous in America as the “tabloidization” of the nation’s media took hold. In <i>Tabloid Culture</i> Kevin Glynn draws on diverse theoretical sources and an unprecedented range of electronic and print media in order to analyze important aspects and key debates that have emerged around this phenomenon.<br> Glynn begins by situating these media shifts within the context of Reaganism, which gave rise to distinctive ideological currents in society and led the socially and economically disenfranchised to access new forms of information via the exploding television industry. He then tackles specific daytime talk shows and tabloid newscasts such as <i>Jerry Springer</i> and <i>A Current Affair,</i> reality-TV programs such as <i>Cops</i> and <i>America’s Most Wanted</i>, and two different supermarket tabloids’ coverage of the O.J. Simpson case. <i>Tabloid Culture</i> is the first book to treat these diverse yet related media forms and events in tandem. Rejecting the elitist dismissal of sensationalist media, Glynn instead traces the cul

Author

Glynn, Kevin, 1963-

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822325505

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Humanities