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Politics on Demand The Effects of 24 Hour News on American Politics

Alison Dagnes

ISBN: 0-313-38278-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-38278-9

192 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 3/2/2010

List Price: $34.95 (UK Sterling Price: £24.95)

Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 3/2/2010)

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Series Title: New Directions in Media

Description: Taking on today's brave, new world of political reporting, Politics on Demand: The Effects of 24 Hour News on American Politics examines how the technological changes and financial imperatives of the American media have led to an entertainment-driven news system that cannot meet the needs of a democracy.

Free of partisan slant, Politics on Demand explains the evolving media system, showing how politicians use the media to sell themselves and how the media uses politicians to its own advantage. The book demonstrates that, with vast amounts of programming time to fill, the spotlight has shifted away from substantive information to opinion, which, in turn, has helped perpetuate partisan politics. Politicians now have to contort themselves to fit within media confines, and political discourse has become extreme and over-simplified. Combining insider interviews with facts, statistics, anecdotes, and analysis, the author, herself a former C-SPAN producer, argues that the American media has become harmful for our nation and a detriment to our political system.
Title Features:
 Interviews with C-SPAN C.E.O. Brian Lamb, Time magazine's TV critic James Poniewozak, Saturday Night Live Weekend Update head writer Alex Baze, and others shed light on today's media
 A chronology examines the technological progression of the American media and the financial developments of media corporate ownership over the past 50 years


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