The Language of Journalism
Subtitle: Volume 1, Newspaper Culture
By: Melvin J. Lasky
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9781351327206
Subjects: Newspapers; Language; Journalism; Journaux; Langage
Description: "The newspaper is to the twentieth century what the novel was for the nineteenth century: the expression of popular sentiment. In the first of a three-volume study of journalism and what it has meant as a source of knowledge and as a mechanism for orchestrating mass ideology, Melvin J. Lasky provides a major overview. His research runs the gamut of material found in newspapers, from the trivial to the profound, from pseudo-science to habits of solid investigation. The volume is divided into four parts. The first attacks deficiencies in grammar and syntax with examples from newspapers and magazines drawn from the German as well as English-language press. The second examines the key issues of journalism: accuracy and authenticity. Lasky provides an especially acute account of differences between active literacy and passive viewing, or the relationship of word and picture in defining authenticity. The third part emphasizes the problem of bias in everything from racial reporting to cultural correctness. This is the first systematic attempt to study racial nomenclature, identity-labeling, and literary discrimination. Lasky follows closely the model set by George Orwell a half century earlier. The final section of the work covers the competition between popular media and the redefinition of pornography and its language. The volume closes with an examination of how the popular culture both influenced and was influential upon literary titans like Hemingway, Lawrence, and Tynan."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part Part 1: A Question of Style --; title: chapter 1 Words Win, Language Loses --; title: chapter 2 The Equality of Sentences --; title: chapter 3 The Slang of an In-Lingo --; title: chapter 4 Sort of Suspicious, Kind of Guilty --; title: chapter 5 Of Plastic Prose, in Bits and Pieces --; title: chapter 6 Translating Alfred Adler --; title: chapter 7 Teutonics, or Refighting World War II --; title: part Part 2: The Art of Quotation --; title: chapter 8 The Little Goose Feet --; title: chapter 9 Television and Press?War? --; title: chapter 10 Mailer's Tales of Oswald --; title: chapter 11 Citations Sown --; title: chapter 12 Words, Words, W ords --; title: chapter 13 The Strategy of Misquotation 151  -- B.B. and K.K.'s Memorably Misquoted Tag-Lines; title: chapter 14 The Interviewer and Interviewee --; title: part Part 3: The Quest for Meaning --; title: chapter 15 Race and the Color of Things --; title: chapter 16 The N-Word and the J-Word --; title: chapter 17 The Art of Punditry --; title: chapter 18 In Pseuds' Comer --; title: chapter 19 Pop Kulcher --; title: chapter 20 The Art of Explanation --; title: chapter 21 Keeping Up with the Avant-Garde --; title: chapter 22 Hard Words and Generation Gaps --; title: part Part 4: The F-Word and Other Obscenities --; title: chapter 23 Skirmishes in the Sex War --; title: chapter 24 World War II, Fifty Years After --; title: chapter 25 A Trio of As*ter*isk*s --; title: chapter 26 Gender in the Combat Zone --; title: chapter 27 Remembering the Founding Fathers