<p>While often informative and enjoyable, news and entertainment fare are invariably selective, restrictive, and stereotypical, whether deliberate or unintentional, inviting us to adopt certain attitudes, values, and beliefs and dismiss or discount others. The unifying central concern across the ten chapters is the diverse control and containment mechanisms that curtail knowledge acquisition. This focus entails consideration of official church and state censorship, partisan press priorities, right to copy restrictions, state and federal court mandates, statutory restraints, movie, radio, and television formats and formulas, advertiser and public relations tactics, and the prevailing attention-selling method of making money prevalent across media platforms since the advent of the penny press in the 1830s.</p>

Media Studies: A Cultural-Historical Approach

Humor & Entertainment

Stanley, Robert Henry

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Book by Ernest Hemingway, To Have and to Have Not

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