TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sommerville,C.John
TI  - How the news makes us dumb: the death of wisdom in an information society 
SN  - 0830822038
AV  - PN4888.O25 S66 1999
U1  - 302.23 21
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - Downers Grove, Ill.
PB  - InterVarsity Press
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Objectivity
KW  - United States
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Press and politics
N1  - 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?
N2  - 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
ER  -