The Language of Journalism: Newspaper culture. Volume oneTransaction Publishers - 478 páginas The newspaper is to the twentieth century what the novel was for the nineteenth century: the expression of popular sentiment. In the first of a three-volume study of journalism and what it has meant as a source of knowledge and as a mechanism for orchestrating mass ideology, Melvin J. Lasky provides a major overview. His research runs the gamut of material found in newspapers, from the trivial to the profound, from pseudo-science to habits of solid investigation. The volume is divided into four parts. The first attacks deficiencies in grammar and syntax with examples from newspapers and magazines drawn from the German as well as English-language press. The second examines the key issues of journalism: accuracy and authenticity. Lasky provides an especially acute account of differences between active literacy and passive viewing, or the relationship of word and picture in defining authenticity. The third part emphasizes the problem of bias in everything from racial reporting to cultural correctness. This is the first systematic attempt to study racial nomenclature, identity-labeling, and literary discrimination. Lasky follows closely the model set by George Orwell a half century earlier. The final section of the work covers the competition between popular media and the redefinition of pornography and its language. The volume closes with an examination of how the popular culture both influenced and was influential upon literary titans like Hemingway, Lawrence, and Tynan. |
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... Mark Fuhrman's " N - Word " 207 The Color Spectrum of " Race Card " 211 Ebonic Demotic 214 Defusing the Enemy's Vocabulary 221 The Shock Threshold 231 Speaking with a Forked Tongue 234 The Case of " the Jew Rifkind " and Howard's End ...
... Mark Fuhrman's " N - Word " 207 The Color Spectrum of " Race Card " 211 Ebonic Demotic 214 Defusing the Enemy's Vocabulary 221 The Shock Threshold 231 Speaking with a Forked Tongue 234 The Case of " the Jew Rifkind " and Howard's End ...
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Índice
Chromatic Deceptions | 193 |
The Stained Cloak of Ethnicity | 196 |
The NWord and the JWord | 199 |
The Breaking of Taboos | 203 |
Mark Fuhrmans NWord | 207 |
The Color Spectrum of Race Card | 211 |
Ebonic Demotic | 214 |
Defusing the Enemys Vocabulary | 221 |
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The Folksy Affectation of Simplicity | 52 |
AngloAmerican Differences | 60 |
The Coming of the Soccer Moms | 63 |
The Wrong Profession? | 66 |
LifeStyle Crosses the Ocean and Returns | 69 |
Transatlantic Variations | 74 |
1nsuring for All Risks | 76 |
Making a Meal of 1t | 78 |
Teutonics or Refighting World War II | 85 |
On Hating the Huns | 88 |
Ugly Germans and Aryan Heroes | 90 |
The Art of Quotation | 93 |
The Little Goose Feet Starting and Finishing | 95 |
Behind the Confession | 99 |
Expensive Words | 101 |
Television and Press War | 105 |
Of Trash and Rubbish | 108 |
The Shrinking AttentionSpan | 112 |
When the Kissing Had to Stop | 118 |
Oohs Ahs and a Wee Bit of Bother | 120 |
Mailers Tales of Oswald | 123 |
Citations Sown SketchWriters and Tinted Spectacles | 127 |
All 1 know is just what 1 read in the papers Sez You? Sez Me | 129 |
1nverted Commas in Sports | 130 |
Unquoting the Quote | 140 |
Words Words Words The Old Maid of Times Square | 143 |
Jefferson Under a Shadow | 144 |
The Infobahn | 146 |
Boots Boogaloos and Giant Raves | 147 |
The Strategy of Misquotation BB and KKs Memorably Misquoted TagLines | 151 |
When Scotspeak Goes ScotFree | 154 |
Killing with a Quote | 160 |
The Wide Open Range of Malpractice | 161 |
The Interviewer and the Interviewee | 163 |
The Quest for Meaning | 169 |
Race and the Color of Things Black White and Other Spurious Shades | 171 |
Suspicion by Omission | 178 |
The Risks of Shedding Light | 181 |
Wog Golliwog and Likely Stories | 183 |
Race in the Shadow of Enlightened Counsel | 184 |
Illusions in New York and London | 189 |
The Shock Threshold | 231 |
Speaking with a Forked Tongue | 234 |
The Case of the Jew Rifkind and Howards End | 247 |
On the Most Powerful Words | 256 |
Diluting the Deadly Epithets | 257 |
The Art of Punditry | 267 |
Expertise Then and Now | 269 |
In the Pseuds Comer | 275 |
Is It Cricket? | 282 |
Of a High DumbDown Tolerance | 284 |
Pop Kulcher | 287 |
Pliable Platitudes | 289 |
Pop Critics Folklore | 293 |
The Art of Explanation | 295 |
Of Rats and Men | 301 |
The Troubles of the Queen of Green | 302 |
Mistranslation and Misunderstanding | 304 |
First the Bad News then the Good | 306 |
Keeping Up with the AvantGarde | 313 |
Towards a Negative Cultural Tax | 317 |
A Forward and Backward Glance | 320 |
Bert Brechts Three Dots | 322 |
Hard Words and Generation Gaps | 325 |
The Fword and Other Obscenities | 329 |
Skirmishes in the Sex War | 331 |
The Galaxy Strikes Back | 333 |
Of Circumlocutions and Pleonasms | 337 |
World War II Fifty Years After | 343 |
A Trio of Asterisks | 345 |
Gender in the Combat Zone | 349 |
The Politics of the FWord | 359 |
Repeating the Error or Compounding the Offense | 363 |
From Jefferson to Ochs to Murdoch | 364 |
Lady Dis 1nLaws | 367 |
Jacqueline Du Pre or Tragedy in the Family Circle | 369 |
Expletives in Public Life | 371 |
The Point of the Anecdote | 374 |
Motiveless Malignity | 376 |
Remembering the Founding Fathers | 379 |
Kenneth Tynan | 387 |
Peregrine Worsthorne | 412 |
Osbornes Effing Anger | 416 |
Amis Pere et Fils | 418 |
Jeeves in Sardinia | 426 |
A Thought on the Hall of 111 Fame | 427 |
One Newspaper Comes Out of the Closet | 432 |
Notes | 439 |
Index | 467 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
American Amis become British C.S. Lewis called color column columnist confessed critic Daily Mail Daily Telegraph Dictionary dirty realism editor English ethnic expletives f-word famous film foreign four-letter fuck German happened headline intellectual interview Jewish Jews journalism journalistic Kenneth Tynan kind Kingsley Amis language Lenny Bruce letters liberal life-style literary live London Mark Fuhrman murder named never newspaper culture nigger novel NYT/IHT O.J. Simpson obscene offensive paper phrase play political profanity prose published question quotation quoted race racial racist readers record referred reported revolution semantic sentences sexual slang sort speech split split infinitive story style Sunday Sunday Telegraph sure talk television thing thought Times/IHT tion trying turn Tynan usage verbal vocabulary Washington Post whole William Safire words writing York York Post young
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