Description
Book Synopsis* Bourdieu is well known as one of the most original and influential thinkers in the social sciences. * This book is one of the only things he wrote on the media - the bulk of the text is about television and the book includes an important essay about journalism.
Trade Review"This unremitting assault on the impact and pretensions of television demolishes conventional arguments."
Times Literary Supplement "Bourdieu not only presents a damming portrait of television as a domain of instant experts - les 'fast thinkers' - dedicated to the production of sensationalism and historical amnesia, he explains why this is so. Anyone who is seriously interested in journalism must read this book."
Katha Pollitt, The Nation
"As television became normal, so did its systematic corruption. This indispensable polemic, a little marvel of compression, is both a passionate call to resistance and a convincing account of its difficulties."
Todd Gitlin, Columbia University
Table of ContentsPrologue
Journalism and Politics
Preface
Part One
In Front of the Camera and Behind the Scenes
Part Two
Invisible Structures and Their Effects
The Power of Journalism
Appendix
The Olympics - An Agenda for Analysis
Translator's Note
Bibliography
Notes
Index
