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The Media and the Making of History (Paperback)
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The Media and the Making of History (Paperback)
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While the huge impact of the mass media on everyday social life is
acknowledged, it has generally been assigned a peripheral role in
the historical process. This intriguing book demonstrates that, far
from being a footnote, media discourse has been a critical factor
in recent European history, and indeed one that distinguishes the
twentieth century from all previous ones. John Theobald looks back
to the First World War, analyzing the use and abuse of journalistic
discourse in the portrayal of events to the public and to
decision-makers. He goes on to present a series of case studies
demonstrating the active mass media role in a selection of key
events from the twentieth century including: the Cold War, the
collapse of Communism in the GDR and German unification, debates
over the European Union and the impact of September 11, 2001. He
sets these studies within the context of traditions of radical mass
media criticism from early analysts such as Kraus, TAnnies and
Tarde through to contemporaries such as Chomsky, Bourdieu and
Pilger.
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