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News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment
Daya Thussu
A study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers an analysis of this emerging phenomenon. It argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which 'soft news' masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.
226 pages, 1, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 9, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780761968788 |
| Publishers | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 157 × 232 × 13 mm · 358 g |
| Language | English |
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