Ugly War, Pretty Package: How CNN and Fox News Made the Invasion of Iraq High Concept
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (766 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253221226 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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This will change forever change the way you see television news! Debbie Danielpour Erudite, readable and ground-breaking, this book skillfully uncovers the truth behind what most viewers call television news. This is not a political book, it does not take sides, it only uncovers facts to relay its message. After the first chapters, even the most educated reader will feel enlightened. Professor Jaramillo shows how and why television news is a careful production (as is most o. Badly Written; Incomplete Picture Eric Zuesse My review of this book appears in my comments after Debbie Chapel's five-star review of it. I explain there why I have far lower regard for this book. Basically, I say there that this book is atrociously written, and that in its substance the book fails to deal with a failure of the entire mainstream U.S. "news" media that went far beyond merely the "bad" Fox News versus the "good" CNN. Yes,
Jaramillo investigates cable news' presentation of the Iraq War in relation to "high concept" filmmaking. invasion of IraqUgly War, Pretty Package offers a new paradigm for understanding how television news reporting shapes our perceptions of events.. High concept films can be reduced to single-sentence summaries and feature pre-sold elements; they were considered financially safe projects that would sustain consumer interest beyond their initial theatrical run. Using high concept as a framework for the analysis of the 2003 coverage of the Iraq Warpaying close attention to how Fox News and CNN packaged and promoted the U.S. Deborah L
Deborah Jaramillo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Television at Boston University. She is a two-time Ford Fellow and sits on the board of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.
invasion of Iraq in 2003 like a blockbuster action movie, according to media scholar Jaramillo. Jaramillo examines how embedded reporters, and analysts with connections to the Pentagon and defense contractors, stuck to the script provided by the Department of Defense to characterize the invasion as a story of revenge-seeking following the 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Jaramillo focuses on CNN and Fox News as the best (or is it worst?) examples of packaging war news as if it were a war film. From Booklist Television news treated the U.S. As news organizations have become more corporate and attentive to the bottom line, they have begun to treat viewers less like citizens who need to understand why we’re at war and how the war is proceeding and more like consumers to be entertained and enthralled. She offers a painstaking analysis of the first five days of war coverage, demonstrating how the two networks adher