Where ideas go to die

Where ideas go to die / Michael McDevitt.

"Where Ideas Go to Die explores the troubled relationship of US journalism and intellect. A defender of common sense, the press is irked at intellect yet often dependent on its critical autonomy. A postwar observation from Richard Hofstadter applies to contemporary journalists: "Men do not...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDevitt, Michael (Professor of journalism) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
2000-2099
Journalism > Social aspects > United States.
Journalism > Political aspects > United States.
Journalism > Study and teaching (Higher) > Social aspects > United States.
Democracy > United States.
Social control > United States.
Democracy
Intellectual life
Journalism > Political aspects
Journalism > Social aspects
Social control
United States > Intellectual life > 21st century.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Journalism and intellect : a vexed relationship
  • Peopling of the journalistic imagination : four kinds of anti-intellectualism
  • Eclipse of reflexivity in the rise of Trump
  • The academic-media nexus
  • Policing of intellectual transgressions : news as a recursive regime
  • Social drama at macro and micro levels : the fractal control of dissent
  • Deviant in residence : idea rendering and repair in the parochial press
  • Closing of the journalism mind : anti-intellectualism among college students
  • In my buggy : how dangerous professors seed intellect in a hybrid field
  • What intellectual journalism would look like.

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