Devil's Advocate (Paperback, New Ed)

John Humphrys started as a cub reporter on a tiny weekly newspaper and , forty years later, has become one of the most respected and controve rsial broadcasters of his generation. In Devil's Advocate he uses his experience to set in context the changes that have overtaken Britain during those forty years. He deba tes the issues that he believes should concern us all. He challenges our changing social and moral values and questions the direction socie ty is taking. We are much better off than we have ever been, but Humphrys sense s a deep unease. Instead of a world in which there were many differen t influences telling us what life was all about, and what living a goo d life might involve, we now have a single voice that threatens to dro wn out all the others. That voice is consumer populism. Its strength derives from the increasing commercialisation of our lives and a medi a, which is itself under greater and greater commercial pressures. Some of the effects include a coarsening of the fabric of daily l ife and a growing thoughtlessness and even hysteria in public debate. Our children are losing their innocence at an ever-earlier age and, t hough we worry about it, we seem impotent in the face of it. Humphrys asks whether, if we had been able to choose our destinat

General

Imprint:	Arrow Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2000
Authors:	John Humphrys
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	271
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-927965-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-09-927965-7
Barcode:	9780099279655

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