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1	Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient!: An Insider's Look at the Supermarket Tabloids more books like this by Jim Hogshire An astute and provocative exploration is made of the fascinating, disturbing, and increasingly influential world of the tabloids we love to hate. The tabloids have reshaped the design and content of the so-called respectable media, according to Hogshire. Packed with eerily compelling conspiracy stories and solid investigative muckraking, this book ... see all copies from £6.11! new only from £8.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies more books like this by W Joseph Campbell The yellow press period in American journalism history has produced many powerful and enduring myths-almost none of them true. This study explores these legends, presenting extensive evidence that: BLThe yellow press did not foment-could not have fomented-the Spanish-American War in 1898, contrary of the arguments of many media historians. BLThe ... see all copies from £9.57! new only from £21.48!
3	Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death more books like this by Susan D Moeller Hailed as a 'great accomplishment' by the philadelphia Inquirer', Susan Moeller's Compassion Fatigue' warns that the American media threatens our ability to understand the world around us. Why do the media cover the world in the way that they do? Are they simply following the marketplace demand for tabloid-style international news? Or are they ... see all copies from £8.69! new only from £9.76! \| first editions
4	Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940 more books like this by Charles L Ponce De Leon This publication gives a new interpretation of the emergence of celebrity. It finds that America's "culture of celebrity" remains misunderstood, particularly when critics discuss its historical roots. Focusing on the development of human-interest journalism surrounding prominent public figures, it illuminates the ways in which new forms of press ... see all copies from £6.11! new only from £7.46!
5	One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnished American Journalism more books like this by Marvin Kalb In 1963 Marvin Kalb observed the Secret Service escorting an attractive woman into a hotel for what was most likely a rendezvous with President Kennedy. Kalb, then a news correspondent for CBS, didn't consider the incident newsworthy. Thirty-five years later, Kalb watched in dismay as the press dove headfirst into the scandal of President Clinton ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £21.67! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby more books like this by Bill Sloan This lively, entertaining, and often funny history of America's supermarket tabloids is the first book to offer a behind-the-scene's look at the intriguing world of tabloid journalism, and especially the unique personalities that made it such a tremendously successful and influential force in today's media. Perhaps no one is more qualified to give ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.53! \| first editions
7	Scooped!: Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze, and Celebrities more books like this by Professor David J Krajicek Why do so many American's know so much about "celebrity" criminals like Joey Buttafuoco and so little about crime? If crime is down, why is there so much mayhem on television news and in the newspapers? Why have respected news organizations followed the tabloid pied piper to the margins of legitimacy? Do politicians really believe that draconian ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £16.62! \| first editions
8	The Murder Channel more books like this by John Philpin Forensic psychiatrist Lucas Frank comes home to Boston and straight into the path cold-blooded killer Felix Zrbny, who was just a teen when his murderous spree left three women dead. After 15 years locked away, he is determined to finish what he started all those years ago--and the ratings-hungry press makes Felix its own macabre media darling by ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.86! \| first editions
9	Tabloid Tales: Global Debates Over Media Standards more books like this by John Tulloch (Editor), Professor Colin Sparks (Editor), Dr. Barbie Zelizer (Foreword by) Coverage of the so called "mad cow disease" outbreak in the mid 1990s was accused by many commentators of starting a widespread public panic. Media critics have seen stories like this. TV shows like Jerry Springer's and a number of tabloid newspapers like the Mirror and the German Bild-Zeitung as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass ... see all copies from £17.75! new only from £17.75!
10	Rabid Nun Infects Entire Convent: And Other Sensational Stories from a Tabloid Writer more books like this by Tom D'Antoni In this wild and wacky anthology, a tabloid writer assembles dozens of his totally invented and screamingly funny stories. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.11!
11 view cover	Who's Hot Who's Not more books like this by Sherwood Kiraly Harry Poe, proprietor of a celebrity-mad magazine, is in the midst of a crisis: he's threatened with a buy-out, the woman he kidnapped is out for revenge, and several people are trying to kill him. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Sensational TV: Trash or Journalism? more books like this by Nancy Day Questions whether the mass media, especially television, present an accurate representation of the news or whether it is more concerned with the sensational story. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £38.49! \| first editions
13 view cover	For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids more books like this by Elizabeth S Bird, S Elizabeth Bird see all copies from £6.35! new only from £10.88!
14 view cover	Yellow Journalism more books like this by Daniel Cohen The love-hate relationship between the American public and tabloid-style media is an important part of America's journalistic history. Dan Cohen "tells it all" from William Randolph Hearst to Walter Winchell to today's internet gossip columnists. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £16.35! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South more books like this by Michael Ayers Trotti This book covers mass media and the sensational crime.Centered on a series of dramatic murders in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Richmond, Virginia, "The Body in the Reservoir" uses these gripping stories of crime to explore the evolution of sensationalism in southern culture.In Richmond, as across the nation, the embrace of modernity was ... see all copies from £20.62! new only from £20.62!
16 view cover	Mapping the Cultural Space of Journalism: How Journalists Distinguish News from Entertainment more books like this by Samuel P Winch Addressing controversial issues of the blurring boundaries between news and entertainment and the movement toward sensationalism in broadcast journalism, this study examines these distinctions: how boundaries are constructed and by whom, how they are enforced or broken and why. Rather than reflecting essential attributes by which news can be ... see all copies from £17.03! new only from £22.14!
17 view cover	The National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906 more books like this by Guy Reel This book analyzes the "National Police Gazette," the racy New York City tabloid that gained an audience among men and boys of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Looking at how images of sex, crime, and sports reflected and shaped masculinities during this watershed era, this book amounts to a story of what it meant to be an ... see all copies from £51.80! new only from £51.83!
18 view cover	Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language more books like this by Martin Conboy From Tony Blair and his cabinet to celebrity chefs and footballers, the British tabloids provide sensational coverage of the private and public lives of political figures and celebrities alike, shaping the nation's perceptions of people and events. These often derided newspapers are important and influential factors in the mediation of everyday ... see all copies from £19.05! new only from £19.05!
19	The Northern Light more books like this by Rudolf Steiner, A J Cronin see all copies from £5.46! first editions
20 view cover	Tabloid Journalism: An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources more books like this by Gerald S Greenberg This is a unique compilation of 819 English-language monographs, journal articles, theses, and conference papers--each briefly summarized--commenting on the phenomenon of sensationalism in journalism. Separate chapters address the practice in newspapers and television, the legal issues raised, and international manifestations. An historical ... see all copies from £39.59! new only from £110.32!
21 view cover	The Yellow Journalism: The Press and America's Emergence as a World Power more books like this by David R Spencer, Geneva Overholser (Foreword by) When a case containing dismembered human remains surfaced in New York's East River in June of 1897, the publisher of the "New York Journal" - a young, devil-may-care millionaire named William Randolph Hearst - decided that his newspaper would "scoop" the city's police department by solving this heinous crime. Pulling out all the stops, Hearst ... see all copies from £14.32! new only from £14.32! \| first editions
22 view cover	News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment more books like this by Dr. Daya Kishan Thussu 'Thussu brings to this project the passion for news of a socially committed former journalist, the political economy of his international relations education and a formidable assembly of global detail, examining the recent explosion of 'infotainment' - John Downing, Southern Illinois University. 'Thussu's account of war as infotainment, the ... see all copies from £53.09! new only from £53.09!
23 view cover	Tabloid Tales: Global Debates Over Media Standards more books like this by Professor Colin Sparks (Editor), John Tulloch (Editor) The increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as tabloidization. The essays in this book are the first serious scholarly studies of what is going on and what its implications are. Reality, it turns out, is much more complex than some of the laments suggest. As the contributors show, ... see all copies from £153.61!
24	Corazones de papel : sensacionalismo y prensa del corazón en España more books like this by Alejandro Pizarroso Quintero, Julia Rivera see all copies from £24.57!
25	Les Oiseaux de Malheur: Essai Sur Les Medias D'Aujourd'hui more books like this by Andre Pratte see all copies from £11.61! new only from £18.17!

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