Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains

by Brian McNair

Book Overview

We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls regularly indicate that we experience a kind of cultural schizophrenia in our relationship to journalists and the news media: sometimes they are viewed as heroes, at other times villains. From Watergate to the fabrication scandals of the 2000s, journalists have risen and fallen in public esteem.In this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748634479
• ISBN13: 9780748634477
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"