infotainment: References & Edit History
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Useful sources include B.M. Anderson, News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment, and the Bottom Line Business of Broadcast News (2004); B.H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly (2000); M.A. Baum, “Sex, Lies, and War: How Soft News Brings Foreign Policy to the Inattentive Public,” American Political Science Review (96):91–109 (2002); Pierre Bourdieu, “Television,” European Review (9):245–256 (2001); M.X. Delli Carpini and B.A. Williams, “Let Us Infotain You: Politics in the New Media Environment,” in W. Lance Bennett and Robert M. Entman (eds.), Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy (2001), pp. 160–181; Doug Underwood, “Reporting and the Push for Market-Oriented Journalism: Media Organizations as Businesses,” in W. Lance Bennett and Robert M. Entman (eds.), Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy (2001), pp. 99–116.
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