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How the news makes us dumb : the death of wisdom in an information society / C. John Sommerville

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 155 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0830822038
  • 9780830822034
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23 21 S697H
LOC classification:
  • PN4888.O25 S66 1999
Contents:
1. Why the News Can't Be Fixed -- 2. News Product as Creative Expression -- 3. Being Informed Versus Being Wise -- 4. How News Schedules Drive Our Government -- 5. Politics as a Perpetual Campaign -- 6. Why News Product Looks Nothing Like History -- 7. How News Turns Science into Superstition -- 8. Polls, Statistics & Fantasy -- 9. Values, Blame & Nagging -- 10. Deep Theory: News as Culture Substitute -- 11. Virtual Society or Real Community?
Summary: Somerville, a historian, argues that news began to make us dumber when we insisted on having it daily. Now millions of column inches and airtime hours must be filled with information ... Lost in the tidal wave of information is the ability to discern truly significant news
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Books Books Harvest Mission College General Stacks Non-fiction 302.23 S697H (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 004718

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155)

1. Why the News Can't Be Fixed -- 2. News Product as Creative Expression -- 3. Being Informed Versus Being Wise -- 4. How News Schedules Drive Our Government -- 5. Politics as a Perpetual Campaign -- 6. Why News Product Looks Nothing Like History -- 7. How News Turns Science into Superstition -- 8. Polls, Statistics & Fantasy -- 9. Values, Blame & Nagging -- 10. Deep Theory: News as Culture Substitute -- 11. Virtual Society or Real Community?

Somerville, a historian, argues that news began to make us dumber when we insisted on having it daily. Now millions of column inches and airtime hours must be filled with information ... Lost in the tidal wave of information is the ability to discern truly significant news

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