Feeding Frenzy Attack Journalism And American Politics

  
The U.S. media have progressed from the ``lapdog' journalism of 1941-1966 through the ``watchdog' journalism of 1966-1974 to the ``junkyard-dog' journalism of the last 17 years, charges Sabato, professor of government at the University of Virginia. He blasts reporters and editors for printing known lies (``Jack Kemp is gay') and overplaying attitudes that have nothing to do with public performance (Jimmy Carter's ``I have lusted in my heart'). In the rush to air or to print material first, Sabato argues, the media have often relied on rumor and gossip or have focused on irrelevant subjects like John Tower's alleged womanizing instead of significant matters like that senator's questionable dealings with major defense suppliers. Such practices have eroded journalism's credibility with the public, the author concludes, citing polls that show trust in the media to be at a low ebb. This provocative and controversial study suggests remedies that will strike readers as valuable but perhaps unrealistic. (Aug.)
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Get this from a library! Feeding frenzy: attack journalism and American politics. Larry Sabato. FEEDING FRENZY: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics User Review - Kirkus A critical, yet ultimately plodding analysis of the media's fixation on gaffes and scandals, from Univ. Sabato is the author of over twenty books on politics, including Feeding Frenzy: Attack Journalism and American Politics and The Rise of Political Consultants: New Ways of Winning Elections. He is the co-author of Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics with Glenn R. Get this from a library! Feeding frenzy: how attack journalism has transformed American politics. Larry Sabato - Examination of how attack journalism is undermining our nation's politics. AbeBooks.com: Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics (365) by Sabato and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Aug 10, 2016  Sabato Discusses 25 Years of Political ‘Feeding Frenzies’. “Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics,” Larry Sabato is witnessing a frenzy like never before. The University of Virginia politics professor and director of the Center for Politics described a growing media trend in which a critical mass.

Reviewed on: 07/29/1991
Release date: 08/01/1991
Genre: Nonfiction
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One of the best exposes of how journalism in the late 20th century has become more concerned with junkyard-dog scandal mongering than dealing with substantive issues. A worthy companion to James Fallows' more recent Breaking the News.

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A critical, yet ultimately plodding analysis of the media's fixation on gaffes and scandals, from Univ. of Virginia government professor Sabato (PAC Power, 1984; The Rise of Political Consultants, 1981). The title refers to ``the press coverage attending any political event or circumstance where a critical mass of journalists leap to cover the same embarrassing or scandalous subject and pursue it intensely, often excessively, and sometimes uncontrollably.' Many of the 36 cases examined here are dismally familiar to political junkies--Gary Hart's alleged womanizing, the phony mental-health rumors about Michael Dukakis, Gerald Ford's ``free Poland' gaffe--and Sabato expertly supports his contention that they are debilitating to the body politic with comments gleaned from over 200 interviews, many with journalists surprisingly candid about their profession's excesses. Yet Sabato lumps together controversies that are trivial or sexually titillating (e.g., the ``killer rabbit' that afflicted Jimmy Carter, Ohio Governor Dick Celeste's extramarital affairs) with others involving criminal offenses or constitutional issues (Chappaquiddick, Watergate, Iran-contra). Moreover, he continually undermines his case with reflections that are overstated (``Some recent lynchings..rival any spectacle produced by colonial Salem'), contradictory (one of his guidelines notes that ``situational ethics' should still affect coverage of private lives--a press excuse he has already found self-serving), or just wrong (Sabato to the contrary, fear of skeletons in the closet has not noticeably discouraged ambitions of Presidential aspirants). Informative and timely, especially in light of the William Kennedy Smith and Chuck Robb cases--but dimmed by an anemic style and pedestrian conclusions. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. Feeding frenzy 2 game play free online. All rights reserved.

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