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<p><p>it Was Once Said That All Politics Is Local. But Today, All Politics Is Televisual. Candidates Spend Millions On Tv Ads. Most People Get Their News From Tv's Sound Bites. Television Doesn't Just Affect Politicsit Is Politics. But How Does That Mega-medium Shape Our Political Ideas And Values? In The Sound Bite Society, Jeffrey Scheuer Argues That The Rise Of Television Is Directly Linked To The Decline Of The American Left And The Ascent Of The Electronic Right. Political Argument Has Been Simplified To Quick, Telegraphic Tv Sound Bites Which, He Argues, Inherently Favor The Right Wing. Television's Visual And Rhetorical Conventions Are Biased Toward Simplicity, Scheuer Argues, Making It The Perfect Vehicle For Conservative Messages Advocating A Simpler Society And Smaller Government. Web Site&#58; Www.thesoundbitesociety.com</p></p> <h3>daniel Schorr</h3> <p>the Most Searching Book I Have Seen On Television's Assault On Our Psyches And Our Society. Scheuer Emerges As Not Only A First-rank Scholar Of The Media But A Philosopher Of The Media. &#151;<i>national Public Radio</i></p>

Author

Jeffrey Scheuer

Publisher

New York: Routledge

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781135350475

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Social Science

Rating

4 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14