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The Political Pundits » Read Now
by Dan Nimmo, James E. Combs. 196 pgs.

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Nimmo and Combs discuss the key role political analysts play, their methods and strategies, and the potential danger they pose to American democracy--by transforming it into a "punditocracy" which replaces serious citizen debate with discussion guided by show business values. Punditry, Nimmo and...
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Nimmo and Combs discuss the key role political analysts play, their methods and strategies, and the potential danger they pose to American democracy--by transforming it into a "punditocracy" which replaces serious citizen debate with discussion guided by show business values. Punditry, Nimmo and Combs argue, produces symbolic rather than effective healing of political ills, political paternalism rather than political reflection, and, in the end, public disenchantment with politics.
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Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy » Read Now
by Eric Alterman. 322 pgs.

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Washington and the Curse of the Pundit Class, in World Policy Journal » Read Now
by Eric Alterman. 46 pgs.

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...policymakers, political pundits, and press people...the influence of pundits like Krauthammer...to Washington political culture, the degree...tough moderation." Pundits and...
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The Pundit Explosion, in American Journalism Review » Read Now
by Alicia C. Shepard. 6 pgs.

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...lobby to join the roster of pundits. "Most of the people I know...to be an emerging breed of political performers that are more interested...according to Altermans book on...
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Pundits for Hire, in American Journalism Review » Read Now
by Alina Tugend. 6 pgs.

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...when AJR last wrote about retired military officers turned TV pundits, few had exclusive contracts with the networks. Most wandered...exclusivity. For example, Ronald...
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CJR Poll the Perils of Punditry, in Columbia Journalism Review » Read Now
by Neil Hickey. Multiple pgs.

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...Unless the `commentators or `pundits have a special knowledge of...become so much a part of the political process that they are both...but a single guideline: "All pundits...
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Polonius, Our Pundit, in American Scholar » Read Now
by Catharine R. Stimpson. 12 pgs.

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...game, he could belong to the moderate wing of either major political party. The actual party affiliation is irrelevant. He belongs...conventional. Members of the...
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The False Promise of "Full Disclosure," in Policy Review » Read Now
by Robert W. Hahn. 12 pgs.

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...requires a scholar to identify conflicts that would not pass a political "smell test." That is, if there is a reason to think that an...libraries." Posners ideas could, of...
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Hot Air: All Talk, All the Time (Chap. 9 "Talking for Dollars" and Chap. 13 "Blurring the Lines") » Read Now
by Howard Kurtz. 423 pgs.

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WASHINGTON POST media critic Howard Kurtz presents an eye-opening exploration of the new talk show culture, where a sharp tongue and the ability to shock has replaced insight and substance, and where celebrity reporters and commentators have become bigger than the stories they report.
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The American Newspaper Columnist (Chap. 4 "The Pundits: America's Syndicated Political Columnists") » Read Now
by Sam G. Riley. 251 pgs.

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The figure of the newspaper columnist, which emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century, plays a key role in modern newspapers. Columnists nowadays add a decidedly personal touch to the newspapers in which they appear--an important consideration in an increasingly impersonal, corporate...
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The figure of the newspaper columnist, which emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century, plays a key role in modern newspapers. Columnists nowadays add a decidedly personal touch to the newspapers in which they appear--an important consideration in an increasingly impersonal, corporate, no-nonsense medium. This volume provides the most complete look available at the emergence of the columnist and at who the leading columnists have been from the Civil War era to the present. In total, 780 columnists and their work are examined chronologically--according to when their columns first appeared--within several categories: early (1800s), humor, column poets, syndicated political, other syndicated, local, and minority.
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The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the '90s (Chap. 5 "Democracy Versus Punditocracy: The Handful of Insiders Who Shaped Campaign News") » Read Now
by Jim Naureckas, Janine Jackson. 254 pgs.

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...The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal...Administration Pundits to Clinton: Break Campaign...with governmental and political elites. 3 The ideology...these news...
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The Pundit Corps, in American Journalism Review » Read Now
by Kelly Heyboer. 5 pgs.

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...attorneys and the Clinton/Lewinsky saga made stars of political pundits galore, the war in Kosovo has been a major breeding...effortlessly into the spots vacated by...
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The Electronic Election: Perspectives on the 1996 Campaign Communication (Chap. 14 "The Influence of Medium and Media Commentary on Presidential Debate Effects") » Read Now
by Lynda Lee Kaid, Dianne G. Bystrom. 422 pgs.

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...Methodologies Dianne G. Bystrom Iowa State University Lynda Lee Kaid University of Oklahoma Although many political reporters, pundits, and observers approached the 1996...
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The News Shapers: The Sources Who Explain the News » Read Now
by Lawrence C. Soley. 182 pgs.

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This volume describes and analyzes the elite club of individuals that the media approach for "inside information," background, or predictions concerning the outcome of still-unfolding stories. Based on a study examining three major networks' evening newscasts during 1987-1988, it reveals that a...
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This volume describes and analyzes the elite club of individuals that the media approach for "inside information," background, or predictions concerning the outcome of still-unfolding stories. Based on a study examining three major networks' evening newscasts during 1987-1988, it reveals that a small number of white, politically conservative men associated with Washington-based think tanks, former Republican administrations, and private East Coast universities virtually monopolize political discourse in the mass media.
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Eminent Rhetoric: Language, Gender, and Cultural Tropes (Chap. Four "Media Warfare: Newsmakers and Militaristic Thinking") » Read Now
by Elizabeth A. Fay, Donaldo Macedo. 160 pgs.

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Fay examines the unacknowledged political uses of language in modern culture that engender and effectuate power imbalances among speakers and listeners. She locates six strategies in which women are particularly targeted by politicized rhetoric and shows how they are used in a variety of...
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Fay examines the unacknowledged political uses of language in modern culture that engender and effectuate power imbalances among speakers and listeners. She locates six strategies in which women are particularly targeted by politicized rhetoric and shows how they are used in a variety of language-informed social arenas. Using bell hooks' pedagogy of "talking back," Eminent Rhetoric argues that women need not only to learn how to recognize victimizing rhetoric, but also to start to challenge it and its rhetors. Women must be shown how the everyday language of politicians, educators, and newscasters is not natural but is marked--designed for manipulative purposes that put women at risk.
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