Affiliation:
1. Dpartment of History and the department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2. Carl and Matilda Newhouse Chair in Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Abstract
The golden age of television news gave a large majority of otherwise diverse Americans a unified, seamless, and clear-cut image of their nation, its central players, and its agenda. Carefully scheduled, edited, sequenced, and branded, heard and seen simultaneously across America, it provided a pretense of order to the chaos that is news. The permanence and stability of the nation, as expressed in a complex way by TV news, provided Americans with an all-important sense of existential security experienced on an unarticulated emotional level. Today, a disjointed news environment is crushing the nature of network news as a transitional object. Television news no longer reassures viewers by connecting them to a surmountable world out there but carries them on a loop from themselves to themselves.
Subject
General Social Sciences,Sociology and Political Science
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11 articles.
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