Howard Rosenberg

Not So Prime Time

Chasing the Trivial on American Television

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Produktbeschreibung

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Rosenberg traces a disturbing pattern on American television, a relentless pursuit of the mundane in its seeming quest to "dumb down" America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 163mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781566635776
• ISBN-10: 1566635772
• Artikelnr.: 22159915

Autorenporträt

Howard Rosenberg was the Los Angeles Times's TV critic for twenty-five years before his retirement in 2003. He won the Pulitzer Prize and two National Headliner awards for his commentary and reporting; his writing has also appeared in a great many magazines. Mr. Rosenberg now teaches news ethics in the Annenberg School and criticism in the film-television school at the University of Southern California. He lives in Agoura Hills, California, near Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface xiii Part 2 I. NEWS ON A HIGH WIRE: CLOWNS WITHOUT SAFETY
NETS Chapter 3 Team Coverage of Breaking News 9 Chapter 4 Poor Richard's
Almanac of Horrors 12 Chapter 5 Obsession, Not Proportion, Drives
Television News 16 Chapter 6 Her Nose Makes News 19 Chapter 7 Private Lives
and Prying Public 23 Chapter 8 First Amendment, Shmendment 26 Chapter 9
When Ride-alongs Take the Public for a Ride 29 Chapter 10 Foreign News?
It's All Alien to the Networks 32 Chapter 11 Let's Hear it (Again) for Old
Glory 36 Chapter 12 A Lox Named Fox 39 Chapter 13 If You're Not for
Yourself, Who Will Be For You? 43 Chapter 14 The Blurred Lines of Today's
"Reality" 46 Chapter 15 Celebrating Ficition as Fact 49 Chapter 16 Paul
Goes Home 53 Chapter 17 Propping Up the Berlin Wall 56 Chapter 18 Out of
the Anchor Chair, Into the Fray 60 Chapter 19 The Russian Roulette of Live
News Coverage 64 Chapter 20 To Air is Human, Especially When It's Live 68
Chapter 21 Live From Iraq, Ready or Not 71 Chapter 22 Publicity, They Name
is Schwarzenegger 74 Chapter 23 The Day the World Shattered 77 Part 24 II.
TRASH, YOU ROCK. . . SOMETIMES Chapter 25 Ratinng on Bill Was Her Duty 83
Chapter 26 Wanna Confess? Call Montel 86 Chapter 27 How Was Poor Jenny to
Know He Was a Ticking Time Bomb? 90 Chapter 28 Communing With Nature by
Destroying It 94 Chapter 29 Transgressing All the Way to the Bank 98
Chapter 30 The Art of Rebounding 101 Chapter 31 When Crummy Acting and
Writing Equal Fun 105 Chapter 32 In "Ark," Noah Plays Friars Club 109
Chapter 33 A Tale of Two Miniseries 113 Chapter 34 The Face That Launched a
Thousand Cliches 116 Part 35 III. THE POLS, PREZ, PROPS OF WAR, AND OTHER
PHENOMENA: READY FOR THEIR CLOSE-UPS? Chapter 36 Infomercials Disguised as
Conventions 127 Chapter 37 Judging Political Parties by Their Stagecraft
131 Chapter 38 And Now, For My Next Rehearsed Ad Lib. . . 135 Chapter 39 Do
Great Moves Make Great Presidents? 138 Chapter 40 When His Presence is the
Message 142 Chapter 41 Our President: Man or Mannequin? 145 Chapter 42
Bush's Image Fails to Fill the Screen 148 Chapter 43 When No News is Big
News 151 Chapter 44 White Meat or Dark? 155 Chapter 45 D-Day and the
resonance of War. . .Now and Then 158 Chapter 46 Looking to the Past to See
the Present 162 Chapter 47 A New War, but the Same Old Tube 166 Chapter 48
War as a Sales Tool 170 Chapter 49 Seeking Symbolic Moments in the Tides of
History 174 Chapter 50 Talking the Talk Before Taking the Walk 177 Chapter
51 Ultimate Reality 181 Chapter 52 Timothy MecVeigh: The Closed Circuit 185
Chapter 53 Let's Bring Camera's to Death's Door 188 Chapter 54 O.J. on
Trial 191 Chapter 55 The Year of Simpson 194 Chapter 56 The Case for
Cameras in Courtrooms 198 Chapter 57 Give bin Laden His (Televised) Day in
Court 201 Chapter 58 One Picture Can Be Worth a Thousand Clips 205 Chapter
59 The Death of Challenger Recalled 209 Chapter 60 Columbia Freeze Frame
213 Chapter 61 High Noon in Television's High Court 216 Chapter 62 TV Keeps
the Dreams-and Dross-Alive 220 Part 63 IV. BURYING THE HYPE: TRUE HEROES
AND DEITIES UNMASKED Chapter 64 Big Man, Big Laughs, Big Legacy 227 Chapter
65 Excellence, from "Marty" to the Mafia 231 Chapter 66 I Confess! I Did
Watch Perry Mason! 234 Chapter 67 A Toast for Kuralt and One for the Road
238 Chapter 68 Contemplating Cosell 242 Chapter 69 The Life of a National
Hero Has Its Perils 246 Chapter 70 A "Masterpiece Theatre" of Pomp and Puff
250 Chapter 71 When the Coverage Is as Senseless as the Tragedy 253 Part 72
Index 257