News as Entertainment

Daya Thussu

SAGE Publications Inc, 2008

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A study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers an analysis of this emerging phenomenon. It argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which 'soft news' masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.

ISBN-13
9780761968788
ISBN-10
0761968784
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Year
2008
Publication date
2008-01-09
Pages
224
Dimensions
232x157x13
Weight
358