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   Scooped! Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze and Celebrities (Discussion of tabloid television begins on p. 14) » Read Now

   by David J. Krajicek. 239 pgs.

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   Mapping the Cultural Space of Journalism: How Journalists Distinguish News from Entertainment (Includes discussion of tabloid television in multiple chapters) » Read Now

   by Samuel P. Winch. 192 pgs.

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   Addressing the controversial issues of the blurring boundaries between news and entertainment and the movement toward sensationalism in broadcast journalism, this study examines these distinctions: how boundaries are constructed and by whom; how they are enforced or broken and why. Rather than...

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   Addressing the controversial issues of the blurring boundaries between news and entertainment and the movement toward sensationalism in broadcast journalism, this study examines these distinctions: how boundaries are constructed and by whom; how they are enforced or broken and why. Rather than reflecting essential attributes by which news can be distinguished from other kinds of communication, "boundary setting" is viewed as a social construction, determined and changed by journalists wishing to assert their jurisdiction and authority and the prestige of the profession. Four instances of "boundary-work rhetoric" are examined in depth: (1) the development of roles and "rules" of television journalism during the early years of television; (2) attempts at Congressional and FTC regulation--broadcasting codes defining "bona fide" news; (3) responses to a 1992 journalistic scandal over a "Dateline NBC" story on exploding GM pickup trucks, and (4) reporting sex scandals during recent political campaigns, such as the allegations of Gennifer Flowers of her involvement with Bill Clinton. In these and other cases, journalists developed strategies to minimize harm to the profession.

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   Explicating Sensationalism in Television News: Content and the Bells and Whistles of Form, in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media » Read Now

   by Maria Elizabeth Grabe, Shuhua Zhou, Brooke Barnett. 21 pgs.

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   ...is strongly associated with tabloid television news packaging. Application...Briller, B. (1993). The Tao of tabloid television. Television Quarterly, 26(4...journalism of...
   
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   Packaging Television News: The Effects of Tabloid on Information Processing and Evaluative Responses, in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media » Read Now

   by Maria Elizabeth Grabe, Shuhua Zhou, Annie Lang, Paul David Bolls. 18 pgs.

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   ...These findings suggest that tabloid television news is produced using a formal...Briller, B. (1993). The Tao of tabloid television. Television Quarterly, 26(4...G. (1989)...
   
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   Electronic Magazines: Soft News Programs on Network Television (Chap. Ten "'Tabloids' versus Magazine Programs: Networks' Role as Standard Setters") » Read Now

   by William C. Spragens. 151 pgs.

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   This study examines the phenomenon of the "electronic magazine" and shows how the soft news programs affect the public's view of American politics and culture. Maintaining the distinction between the syndicated, tabloid-style programming (whose survival depends almost entirely on ratings success)...

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   This study examines the phenomenon of the "electronic magazine" and shows how the soft news programs affect the public's view of American politics and culture. Maintaining the distinction between the syndicated, tabloid-style programming (whose survival depends almost entirely on ratings success) and the more responsibly conceived network magazine programming, Spragens provides a thorough content analysis of "60 Minutes", "Dateline NBC", "20/20", and similar network series. His study traces the development of the television magazine genre from the original "60 Minutes" through the current crop of news programs; it tracks the soft/hard or sensational/serious content dichotomy and its relation to ratings; and it draws conclusions about the trends in soft news programming and their impact on the American public.

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   The TV Tabs' New Tone, in Columbia Journalism Review » Read Now

   by Frank Houston. 2 pgs.

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   ...Elvis sightings, televisions syndicated tabloid news shows are sporting...While the tactics of tabloid television--parking-lot ambushes...But the other tabloid news shows...
   
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   How the News Media Fail American Voters: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies ("Tabloid Television Watchers" begins on p. 43) » Read Now

   by Kenneth Dautrich, Thomas H. Hartley. 202 pgs.

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   It is often noted that the public is frustrated with the news media. But what do American voters really think about how the media present political information? While studies have examined how the news shapes opinions as well as what people respond to and remember, this is the first book to provide...

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   It is often noted that the public is frustrated with the news media. But what do American voters really think about how the media present political information? While studies have examined how the news shapes opinions as well as what people respond to and remember, this is the first book to provide an in-depth analysis of how voters use and evaluate the news media in political elections and the impact these trends have on their use of the news.

   Kenneth Dautrich and Thomas H. Hartley performed a four-wave national panel survey of voters during the 1996 presidential campaign. They found that although voters are profoundly dissatisfied with the usefulness of news in helping them make decisions, they are unlikely to stop using the news media or switch media (from network news to public broadcasting, for instance). Thus the media have little incentive to adjust to the needs or wishes of voters.

   Here is an important contribution to the debate about the responsibilities news media raging among of the pundits and policymakers.

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   The Troubles of Journalism: A Critical Look at What's Right and Wrong with the Press ("Creeping Tabloidization" begins on p. 84) » Read Now

   by William A. Hachten. 188 pgs.

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   ...watch MTV and tabloid, tell-all television shows. The former...the supermarket tabloids and various television magazine shows...news spotlight. Television news will...
   
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   When Checkbook Journalism Does God's Work, in Columbia Journalism Review » Read Now

   by Louise Mengelkoch. 4 pgs.

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   ...tabloids and, especially, tabloid television. "Checkbook journalism...ourselves about what the television tabloids are good for, and why...sink" to the level of tabloid...