Overview

"Richard Nixon hammed it up on ""Laugh-In"", Bill Clinton hung out on MTV, and talk shows are now regular stops on the campaign trail. Television doesn't just affect politics-it is politics. In The Sound Bite Society , Jeffrey Scheuer argues that the rise of television is responsible for the decline of the American left. Political argument was simplified to quick, telegraphic ""sound bites"" as it shifted to television, and the more simplistic it became, the more the rules of engagement favoured the right wing. Television's visual and rhetoric conventions are biased towards simplicity, Scheuer claims, making it the perfect vehicle for conservative messages advocating a simpler theory of government that supports personal autonomy, less bureaucracy, and limited regulation."

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Author:   Jeffrey Scheuer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780415936620

ISBN 10:   0415936624
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   02 November 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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... refreshing. Whatever your political persuasion, however, The Sound Bite Society offers an interesting... take on what shapes the politics of television. <br>- NationalJournal.com <br> Irrespective of whether one fully agrees with Scheuer's thesis, [ The Sound Bite Society] will be very useful in stimulating active discussion in classes dealing with political communication and the media. <br>-Susan Tyler Eastman, Communication Booknotes Quarterly <br>... a true intellectual discourse, an essay in the realm of ideas. <br>- The Jerusalem Post <br> Thoughtful, in many ways amazing. Part polemic and part rainbow of dazzling insights. <br>-Victor Navasky, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Nation <br> The most searching book I have seen on television's assault on our psyches and our society. Scheuer emerges as not only a first-rank scholar of the media but a philosopher of the media. <br>-Daniel Schorr, Senior Analyst, National Public Radio <br>

Author Information

Jeffrey Scheuer writes about politics and media. His criticism and commentary has appeared in The New YorkTimes, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Los AngelesTimes and Dissent. He lives in New York City.

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