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Primetime Pundits explores the ascent of punditry and offers a new approach for understanding how social issues are covered in the changing media landscape. Based on extensive research of primetime news coverage of social issues, Letukas analyzes how pundits have come to dominate our national political dialogue over the past thirty years.

List of contents

Chapter 1: What is a Pundit?
Chapter 2: The Ascent of Punditry
Chapter 3: The Era of Infotainment: The Rise of Television Punditry and Sound Bite News
Chapter 4: Constructing the News
Chapter 5: Packaging Pundit Claims about Social Issues
Chapter 6: How Primetime Pundits Politicize News
Chapter 7: Justifying Day Two: How Cable News Sustains a Story
Chapter 8: A Model for Partisan News
Appendix A: Methodology
Appendix B: Case Studies

About the author

Lynn Letukas is assistant research scientist at the College Board and independent research scholar.

Summary

Primetime Pundits explores the ascent of punditry and offers a new approach for understanding how social issues are covered in the changing media landscape. Based on extensive research of primetime news coverage of social issues, Letukas analyzes how pundits have come to dominate our national political dialogue over the past thirty years.

Product details

• Authors: Letukas, Lynn Letukas, Letukas Lynn
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2016
• EAN: 9781498501699
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0169-9
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Communication Studies, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society