How to Watch TV News

Name: How to Watch TV News
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Neil Postman and Steve Powers
ISBN: 9781455100569

Author: Neil Postman and Steve Powers

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Unabridged: 4 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Nonfiction

Synopsis

America is suffering from an information glut. Most Americans are no longer clear about what news is worth remembering or how any of it connects to anything else. Thus, Americans are rapidly becoming the least knowledgeable people in the industrial world.In How to Watch TV News, author and academic Neil Postman and television journalist Steve Powers show how you can become a discerning viewer. They show the difference between entertainment fodder and genuine news, pointing to the symbiotic relationship between TV news and advertising. They explain why TV news has become a cash cow, and stress that anyone who relies exclusively on TV for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen on July 03, 2018

Don't. Well, that was easy. From television insider Steve Powers and technological critic Neil Postman comes this slim book, How To Watch Television News, which explains how televised news is produced and scrutinizes the platform's ability to deliver seriously useful information. Although this is not......more

Goodreads review by The Brain in the Jar on September 05, 2017

Neil Postman, as a philosopher, is deceptively simple. His writing is so easy that by this point it took me seconds to read a page. McLuhan’s name also appear, so it’s obvious he’s not providing new paradigms of thought. He continues McLuhan’s critical examination of technology, not taking it for gr......more

Goodreads review by Ratnakar on August 13, 2016

While this book is about American TV News, you can as well apply the same to Indian News Channels. Substitute NBC, CNN, Fox News with NDTV, CNN-IBN, Times Now and their anchors with Barkha Dutt, Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose and co, it's pretty much the same. The figures might be outdated, but th......more