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Soft News Goes to War: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy in the New Media Age by Matthew Baum, The American public has consistently declared itself less concerned with foreign affairs in the post-ColdWar era, even after 9/11, than at any time since World War II. How can it be, then, that public attentiveness to U.S. foreign policy crises has increased? This book represents the first systematic attempt to explain this apparent paradox. Matthew Baum argues that the answer lies in changes to television's presentation of political information. In so doing he develops a compelling "byproduct" theory of information consumption. The information revolution has fundamentally changed the way the mass media, especially television, covers foreign policy. Traditional news has been repackaged into numerous entertainment-oriented news programs arts entertainment media program sydney and talk shows. By transforming political issues involving scandal or violence (such as attacks on America) into entertainment, the "soft news" media have actually captured more viewers who will now follow news about foreign crises, due to its entertainment value, even if they remain uninterested in foreign policy. Baum rigorously tests his theory through content analyses of traditional arts entertainment media program sydney and soft news media coverage of various post-WWII U.S. foreign crises arts entertainment media program sydney and statistical analyses of opinion surveys. The results hold key implications for the future of American politics arts entertainment media program sydney and foreign policy. For instance, watching soft news reinforces isolationism among many inattentive Americans, Scholars, political analysts, arts entertainment media program sydney and even politicians have tended to ignore soft news arts entertainment media program sydney and disengaged citizens. But, as this book demonstrates, soft news viewers represent an untapped reservoir of unusually persuadable voters.
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Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema by Chon A. Noriega, One of the most influential figures in ethnic media studies takes direct aim at how Chicano filmmaking has been represented in the history of media in the United States. Shot in America tackles seemingly intractable dilemmas involving the political arts entertainment media program sydney and market functions of film arts entertainment media program sydney and TV to provide a definitive response to the debates over cultural arts entertainment media program sydney and racial identity that have embroiled media arts entertainment media program sydney and cultural studies over the past two decades. Noriega offers a compelling arts entertainment media program sydney and detailed description of an enormous body of work by Chicano media makers against the backdrop of Chicano social movements, politics, arts entertainment media program sydney and activism over a forty-year period -- an extraordinary exposition of the civil rights movement, media reform activities, arts entertainment media program sydney and public affairs programming that constitutes the prehistory of independent arts entertainment media program sydney and minority cinemas. Noriega reveals the ways in which Chicano arts entertainment media program sydney and other minority protests both emerged within arts entertainment media program sydney and were regulated by the very institutions that excluded them. Shot in America is a study with broad implications for our understanding of cultural politics arts entertainment media program sydney and the entertainment industries.
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