01885cam a2200337 a 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003202000270007302000180010002000180011803500200013604001010015604300120025705000250026908200220029410000490031624501030036526400550046826400110052330000230053433600260055733700280058333800270061150400560063850504510069452002780114565000430142365000430146665000380150940619411OCoLC20181129114542.0990106t19991999ilu      b    000 0 eng    a0830822038z0830822011  a9780830822034  z9780830822010  a(OCoLC)40619411  aDLCbengcDLCdLVBdBAKERdBTCTAdYDXCPdCPEdQQ3dTULIBdBDXdOCLCFdIOOdOCLCQdOCLCOdUtOrBLW  an-us---00aPN4888.O25bS66 199900a302.23221bS697H1 aSommerville, C. Johnq(Charles John),d1938-10aHow the news makes us dumb :bthe death of wisdom in an information society /cC. John Sommerville 1aDowners Grove, Ill. :bInterVarsity Press,c[1999] 4c©1999  a155 pages ;c21 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 153-155)0 a1. Why the News Can't Be Fixed -- 2. News Product as Creative Expression -- 3. Being Informed Versus Being Wise -- 4. How News Schedules Drive Our Government -- 5. Politics as a Perpetual Campaign -- 6. Why News Product Looks Nothing Like History -- 7. How News Turns Science into Superstition -- 8. Polls, Statistics & Fantasy -- 9. Values, Blame & Nagging -- 10. Deep Theory: News as Culture Substitute -- 11. Virtual Society or Real Community?  aSomerville, a historian, argues that news began to make us dumber when we insisted on having it daily. Now millions of column inches and airtime hours must be filled with information ... Lost in the tidal wave of information is the ability to discern truly significant news 0aJournalismxObjectivityzUnited States 0aMass mediaxObjectivityzUnited States 0aPress and politicszUnited States