01936cam a2200361 a 4500 4140 4140 40619411 OCoLC 20181129114542.0 990106t19991999ilu b 000 0 eng 0830822038 0830822011 9780830822034 9780830822010 (OCoLC)40619411 DLC eng DLC LVB BAKER BTCTA YDXCP CPE QQ3 TULIB BDX OCLCF IOO OCLCQ OCLCO UtOrBLW n-us--- PN4888.O25 S66 1999 302.23 21 S697H Sommerville, C. John (Charles John), 1938- How the news makes us dumb : the death of wisdom in an information society / C. John Sommerville Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, [1999] ©1999 155 pages ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) 1. 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? Somerville, 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 Journalism Objectivity United States Mass media Objectivity United States Press and politics United States ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC HMC HMC GEN 2018-11-29 390.00 0 302.23 S697H 004718 2018-11-29 00:00:00 2018-11-29 BK