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Where Ideas Go to Die - The Fate of Intellect in American Journalism (Paperback)
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Where Ideas Go to Die - The Fate of Intellect in American Journalism (Paperback)
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Ideas die at the hands of journalists. This is the controversial
thesis offered by Michael McDevitt in a sweeping examination of
anti-intellectualism in American journalism. A murky presence,
anti-intellectualism is not acknowledged by reporters and editors.
It is not easily measured by scholars, as it entails opportunities
not taken, context not provided, ideas not examined. Where Ideas Go
to Die will be the first book to document how journalism polices
intellect at a time when thoughtful examination of our society's
news media is arguably more important than ever. Through analysis
of media encounters with dissent since 9/11, McDevitt argues that
journalism engages in a form of social control, routinely
suppressing ideas that might offend audiences. McDevitt is not
arguing that journalists are consciously or purposely controlling
ideas, but rather that resentment of intellectuals and suspicion of
intellect are latent in journalism and that such sentiment
manifests in the stories journalists choose to tell, or not to
tell. In their commodification of knowledge, journalists will, for
example, "clarify" ideas to distill deviance; dismiss nuance as
untranslatable; and funnel productive ideas into static, partisan
binaries. Anti-intellectualism is not unique to American media.
Yet, McDevitt argues that it is intertwined with the nation's
cultural history, and consequently baked into the professional
training that occurs in classrooms and newsrooms. He offers both a
critique of our nation's media system and a way forward, to a media
landscape in which journalists recognize the prevalence of
anti-intellectualism and take steps to avoid it, and in which
journalism is considered an intellectual profession.
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