Tabloid Tales: Global Debates Over Media Standards (Critical Media Studies: Ins

Tabloid TalesGlobal Debates over Media Standards\nAuthor(s): Colin Sparks, John Tulloch, Barbie Zelizer, S Elizabeth Bird, Rod Brookes, Andrew Calabrese, Peter Golding, Jostein Gripsrud, gnes Gulys, Daniel C. Hallin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9780847695720, 978-0847695720\nSynopsis\nCoverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as tabloidization. The essays in this book are the first serious scholarly studies of what is going on and what its implications are. Reality, it turns out, is much more complex than some of the laments suggest. As the contribut.