[ecrea] Television News, Politics and Young People

>TELEVISION NEWS, POLITICS and YOUNG PEOPLE
>GENERATION DISCONNECTED?
>Mike Wayne, Julian Petley, Craig Murray, Lesley Henderson.
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>Published by Palgrave.
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>'A wonderfully thought-provoking rejoinder to those who maintain 
>that the media defends liberty through the dominance of the 
>commercial market. Written by experienced scholars in the field who 
>provide some fascinating insights into the hidden world of senior 
>broadcasters and producers'
>-Brian D. Loader, University of York
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>Why are young people alienated from television news? This book 
>argues that contemporary trends indicating deepening disconnection 
>from news about public life reflect problems both with the way 
>television news covers politics - which is the single biggest item 
>on the news - and with the nature of politics itself under 
>neoliberal capitalism. The authors explore the representation of 
>young people and politics on television news and suggest that there 
>are links between these representations and the reason why young 
>people are turned off news programming. They ask both broadcasters 
>and young people what they think can be done to address this issue, 
>and examine the way that young people consume news. The book 
>concludes that the problem is deep-rooted and requires profound 
>changes both in our political culture and in the culture of television news.

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