Pop culture, politics, and the news : entertainment journalism in the polarized media landscape / Joel Penney.
In Pop Culture, Politics, and the News, Joel Penney explores how pop culture news has taken on an important role in contemporary political discourse. Through coverage of topics like Hollywood diversity, celebrity controversy, and "cancel culture" backlash, entertainment journalism has emer...
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| Other title: | Entertainment journalism in the polarized media landscape |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Journalism and political communication unbound.
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| Summary: | In Pop Culture, Politics, and the News, Joel Penney explores how pop culture news has taken on an important role in contemporary political discourse. Through coverage of topics like Hollywood diversity, celebrity controversy, and "cancel culture" backlash, entertainment journalism has emerged as a key source of political information and commentary, providing audiences with an accessible lens into some of the most hot-button issues of our time. Yet due to the "clickbait" economics of the polarized digital news business, the quality of entertainment journalism is often compromised, and consequently, people view pop culture coverage as "soft news" with little substance or public value. -- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 248 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197557594 0197557597 9780197557587 0197557589 |