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A Violent World analyzes images on global CNN, Israeli IBA, and Palestinian PATV that contribute to how the current violence in the Middle East is framed. Nitzan Ben-Shaul draws from critical media theory and approaches out of cinema studies to examine how dominant ideologies are embedded in mainstream TV news. He focuses on the American elites' global ideology and the conflicting dominant national-peripheral ideologies of Israeli-Palestinian elites, and his in-depth study further offers a new model of analysis for contemporary television news. ... Read more

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Digital TV offers many advantages over analog TV, but the transition process is complex and costly. This book explains how the process is unfolding in the U.S. and Britain and explores the changes in the legal framework and the industry structure associated with it. It is a unique study about the technological, political, and social factors shaping the emergence of the Information Society in the U.S. and Europe. ... Read more

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Fighting for the Truth
If you like most of us receive your news primarily through television you need to read Liz Trotta's book Fighting for Air. She was present at the transformation of TV news from a reportorial medium to an editorializing, prostelytizing one. Trotta too often was a lone voice for truth in reporting amidst a wilderness of ratings, liberal bias and pretty talking heads. She recounts the ups and downs of a traumatic career that took her from battleground to political campaign and back again. Few incidents of significance occurred in the two plus decades that Liz has covered the world that she has not seen and reported on. Her greatest contribution - in this era of finally revealing the shallow nature of TV news - is that some people are able to look beyone the surface and see what is really important.
This book is a must-read for all concerned with current affairs and with how the media deliberately attempts to shape your thinking. Buy it and send it to a friend after you finish. Thanks to Liz Trotta for being ahead of her time. ... Read more

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Couldn't put it down
As an English fan of the American political process, I found this book a truly great insight into how the big US races are run. I was also pleased that, unlike other books of this type, the author remained neutralthroughout.

accurate and concise from petition to decision.
Michael Aron a fixture on the New Jersey political scene brings both the aware and unaware a vividand accurate look at one of the closest governor races in the state of New Jersey's history.He mangages to make it allclear not to just the insider but to any political novice reading theirfirst political book. In the end you come away with not only what ittakes to win in New Jersey's high stakes politics,but also who and whyeverything is so high stakes. ... Read more

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Title: Covering the routine for TV stations.
Author: Lou Prato
Publication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1997
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: v19Issue: n5Page: p46(1)

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He's America's mouth that roars: Rush Limbaugh. . . outrageous, outspoken, and some say out-to-lunch. When Limbaugh claims "I'm not making this stuff up, folks," plug in the lie detector. He is making it up, and FAIR can prove it. In The Way Things Aren't, the media watch group FAIR catches more than one hundred of Rush's wildest whoppers. From ozone to abortion, Rodney King to Reaganomics, Limbaugh has a finely honed ability to distort reality, yet his facts often go unchallenged. Some of these "truths" would be laughable if not for the millions of people who believe them. ... Read more

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Light and heavy at the same time
As much as I am amazed at the subject's ability to expound at length, and in a very entertaining and thought-provoking way, I'm amazed that after all the nonsense he still is reported to be Number One in his field. The good-natured "gotchas" throughout this book remind us that behind that media monolith is an uncontrollable urge to shoot his mouth off and while doing so delude himself and an incredible amount of "dittoheads".
So often, as this book points out, he is not even close, discussing Plymouth Rock, the beginnings of the Health Care system, global warming, etc.
What makes this phenomenon a serious issue is the obvious well fortified platform he has stepped up to as a first class Demagogue. High ratings and a sharp "Screener" can't hurt, when you're playing a composite of Ol' King Cole and William F. Buckley (RL wishes he could wash his socks), and interminably ventilating on the Clintons.
The dittoheads are entitled to turn off their brains while listening to Limbaugh - I did hear such an exhortation from Limbaugh way back when and it didn't sound completely in jest - but I would challenge them to challenge their man to refrain from insulting family members of his political targets, such as Kitty Dukakis and Chelsea Clinton.
Maybe this book, and others, will, through humour, will entice those "heads" into becoming their own "screeners" for objectivity about Rush, buy this book, and ask themselves, does "ditto" mean, yeah, I love him like the rest, or "ditto", whatever he says is fact.

From the Mouth of a Souce
The book tells us what many of its readers already know. Rush Limbaugh appeals to our lower instincts where impulses run rampant, and the emotion of anger is the easiest to trigger and feed.

In what is almost a comic book format and coloring, the content is surprisingly serious about Mr. Limbaugh's deceit, racism, disingenuousness, fabrications and lies. Here's an example from the radio airing on March 10, 1994:

Limbaugh: "I am not calling the president names."

Caller: "You do it every day."

Limbaugh: "Give me one example of calling him a name..."

Caller: "You've called him a liar, a fool, and idiot."

Limbaugh: "Those are not names. Those are assessments of his character. They are not names."

(?)

I was most interested in Rush's background, which revealed his hypocrisy. Limbaugh the ueberpatriot claimed that Reagan was the best president this country ever had, but he never voted for him. In fact, he didn't vote until he was thirty-five.

The second was his lack of military service. Rush claimed to have failed a draft physical and thus was never called because he had a high draft number. Actually, he had a low one, was called, and then "failed" the physical. At different times claiming a knee injury from high school football, and then a pilonidal cyst, which caused him to fail. His father had the same cyst when he was a World War II fighter pilot.

The man who rails against divorce is now working on his third marriage, and the printing of this book was before Limbaugh's drug addiction.

This book also includes Limbaugh's pronouncements and then the reality check. An example of this is Limbaugh's claim that melting glacial ice is the same as ice melting in a glass. The level doesn't change. And here is where RL is flat out wrong. Most of our glacial ice is over land. Water level would rise 200 feet worldwide if it melted.

This means Limbaugh needs to be taken with a large dose of salt, but this is where the book unwittingly falters. Those who see Limbaugh as a charlatan, don't require further convincing. Those who worship at the altar of his Cuban cigars and grotesque line of ties, will discount the contents of this book without reading it.

At least now, I have identified the source for a number of neocon arguments.

This is the kind of book you read during the commute.

Laying the framework
Let me preface this by saying that I was inspired to buy this book because my father is one of the biggest "dittoheads" ever.
Anyway, for a mere $7.00, I could explain to my dad just how wrong this loud, sweaty homo-phobe really is.
More than the lies themselves, I was glad there were citations. I found in Limbaugh's book where he said there are more acres of forestland today than there were back in 1492 when Columbus discovered the continent. WAAAAYYY Off! If there's more forest today, what were all of our cities, parks, stadiums, etc. built on? Barren Desert? I think not, Rush.
The quotes from his radio show are shocking. I just wish I could access an archive of this guy, just so I could really hear them.

book paid for but not sent/delivered by amazon.com
i am very displeased with this purchase because i have not received this book bought and paid for with the other books that i purchased and bought.if i do not receive any response as to why i have not gotten this book, i will file a complaint with the BBB, Consumer Protection, and Federal authorities.

Al Franken is a LIAR!
*See how easy it is to throw bombs at people? I'm glad people express their opinions and have differnet views, even though it pisses me of a lot.

*But, one reviewer used the analogy of Rush listeners to Hitler Youth members.That is such a cop-out, easy, thoughtless, and inflammatory statement.I should know.I used that analogy countless times in school, because it is easy and powerful. The problem is that it is almost always untrue.

*Wake up, people.Support what you say with facts, instead of swill. ... Read more