Not so prime time : chasing the trivial on American television / Howard Rosenberg.
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Chicago :
Ivan R. Dee,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Team coverage of breaking news
- Poor Richard's almanac of horrors
- Obsession, not proportion, drives television news
- Her nose makes news
- Private lives and prying public
- First amendment, shmendment
- When ride-alongs take the public for a ride
- Foreign news? It's all alien to the networks
- Let's hear it (again) for old glory
- A lox named fox
- If you're not for yourself, who will be for you?
- The blurred lines of today's "reality"
- Celebrating fiction as fact
- Paul goes home
- Propping up the Berlin Wall
- Out of the anchor chair, into the fray
- The Russian roulette of live news coverage
- To air is human, especially when it's live
- Live from Iraq, ready or not
- Publicity, they name is Schwarzenegger
- The day the world shattered
- Ratting on Bill was her duty
- Wanna confess? Call Montel
- How was poor Jenny to know he was a ticking time bomb?
- Communing with nature by destroying it
- Transgressing all the way to the bank
- The art of rebounding
- When crummy acting and writing equal fun
- In "ark," Noah plays friars club
- A tale of two miniseries
- The face that launched a thousand cliches
- Infomercials disguised as conventions
- Judging political parties by their stagecraft
- And now, for my next rehearsed ad lib
- Do great moves make great presidents?
- When his presence is the message
- Our president: man or mannequin?
- Bush's image fails to fill the screen
- When no news is big news
- White meat or dark?
- D-day and the resonance of war now and then
- Looking to the past to see the present
- A new war, but the same old tube
- War as a sales tool
- Seeking symbolic moments in the tides of history
- Talking the talk before taking the walk
- Ultimate reality
- Timothy McVeigh: the closed circuit
- Let's bring camera's to death's door
- O.J. on trial
- The year of Simpson
- The case for cameras in courtrooms
- Give Bin Laden his (televised) day in court
- One picture can be worth a thousand clips
- The death of Challenger recalled
- Columbia: freeze this frame
- High noon in television's high court
- TV keeps the dreams, and dross, alive
- Big man, big laughs, big legacy
- Excellence, from "Marty" to the mafia
- I confess! I did watch Perry Mason!
- A toast for Kuralt and one for the road
- Contemplating Cosell
- The life of a national hero has its perils
- A "masterpiece theatre" of pomp and puff
- When the coverage is as senseless as the tragedy.