From Cronkite to Colbert : The Evolution of Broadcast News
by Baym, Geoffrey D.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-09-30
Publisher(s): Paradigm Pub
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Summary
In a time when increasing numbers of people are tuning out the nightly news and media consumption is falling, the late-night comedians have become some of the most important newscasters in the country. From Cronkite to Colbertexplains why. It examines an historical path that begins at the height of the network age with Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, when the evening news was considered the authoritative record of the day's events and forged our assumptions about what 'œthe news' is, or should be. The book then winds its way through the breakdown of that paradigm of 'œreal' news and into its reinvention in the unlikely form of such popularized shows as The Daily Showand The Colbert Report. From Cronkite to Colbertmakes the case that rather than 'œfake news,' those shows should be understood as a new kind of journalism, one that has the potential to save the news and reinvigorate the conversation of democracy in today's society.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Jon Stewart, Brian Williams, and Ted Koppel's Giant Head | p. 1 |
| Representing Reality | p. 25 |
| Publicizing Politics | p. 43 |
| The Slow Death of CBS News | p. 61 |
| News from Somewhere: Hybrid Blends in the Multichannel Era | p. 79 |
| The Daily Show and the Reinvention of Political Journalism | p. 101 |
| "Nothing I'm Saying Means Anything": Stephen Colbert and the New Language of Public Affairs | p. 123 |
| Networked News: Stewart, Colbert, and the New Public Sphere | p. 145 |
| Real News, Fake News, and the Conversation of Democracy | p. 165 |
| Notes | p. 177 |
| Index | p. 191 |
| About the Author | p. 197 |
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