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"For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals. This book turns that question on its head to argue that opinion talk is the political satire of the right and political satire is the opinion programming of the left. They look and feel like two different animals because their audiences are literally, two different animals....
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254 pages ; 24 cm.
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"A groundbreaking study of the journalism startups that are challenging status quos across the country, from an activist video feed in Minneapolis to a watchdog news site in Memphis. A must-read for activists, entrepreneurs, and journalists who want to start local news outlets in their communities"--
64) Facebook
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Facebook explores how founder Mark Zuckerberg grew his social networking site from a small service only available on a single college campus to the world's largest social network. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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xx, 554 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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"An award-winning presidential historian offers an authoritative account of American presidents' attacks on our freedom of the press. "The FAKE NEWS media," Donald Trump has tweeted, "is not my enemy. It is the enemy of the American people." Never has our free press faced so great a threat. Yet the tension between presidents and journalists is as old as the republic itself. From George Washington to Trump, presidents have quarreled with, attacked,...
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Rock 'n' roll cinema volume 1
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Recently orphaned Corinne "Third Degree" Burns enlists her sister and cousin to launch a punk rock band, the Stains. Three rehearsals later, the Stains score the opening slot on a cross-country tour with aging metal act the Metal Corpses and British punk rockers the Looters. The Stains' meteoric rise (and equally lightning-quick fall) owes more to TV exposure than to talent.
69) Amor al aire
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x, 213 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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Amor al aire se trata de nuestra historia de amor y de vida, contada a los cuatro vientos y sin tapujos. Evocamos momentos y experiencias desde ese lugar interior donde los tenemos atesorados, y los dejamos salir con la misma fuerza, alegría o tristeza con las que llegaron ahí. Escrita a cuatro manos e inspirada en los recuerdos de ambos, con las palabras y sentimientos a flor de piel en cada emoción y pensamiento revividos, estas páginas te acercarán...
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xxiii, 212 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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In No One Helped Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine Kitty Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page reports in the New York Times incorrectly identified thirty-eight indifferent witnesses to the crime, fueling fears of apathy and urban decay. Genovese's life, including her lesbian relationship, also was obscured in media accounts of the crime....
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vii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"We are commonly deceived by numbers in our everyday lives. From lotteries, product warranties, and weight loss fads to misleading headlines and social media posts, there is no shortage of confusing or misleading information. Numbers are used to manipulate our decisions and impact our lives in ways that may not be immediately apparent. Data Duped: How to Avoid Being Hoodwinked by Misinformation will help you avoid being fooled by these messages and...
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xiv, 320 pages ; 21 cm
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A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue." In these funny and...
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3 videodiscs (651 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal and weighing a future where their cultural and political...
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viii, 378 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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Barack Obama's stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history. Given America's legacy of racism, how could a relatively untested first-term senator with an African father defeat some of the giants of American politics? In The Obama Victory, Kate Kenski, Bruce Hardy, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson draw upon the best voter data available, The National Annenberg Election Survey, as well as interviews...
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xxiv, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 21 cm
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"How -- and why -- do we focus on those individuals we come to call stars? How does stardom both reflect and mask the person behind it? How have the image of stardom and our stars' images changed over the past hundred years? What does celebrity mean if people can become famous simply for being famous? Ty Burr answers these questions in this lively, wonderfully anecdotal history of stardom -- both its blessings and its curses, for the star and the...
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308 pages ; 22 cm.
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"As seen on ID, these two true-crime thrillers follow a neighbors' quarrel that turns violent and cyber-bullying that explodes in a double murder"--
Two true-crime tales. A woman comes to hate her neighbor; when she takes him to court, his retaliation will be shockingly gruesome. And, a woman who is better at connecting through social media finds the man she's interested in does not reciprocated her feelings; she starts a virtual war that enters...
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xvi, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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"The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who first broke the news In 2016, the fate of Paramount--the entertainment conglomerate that includes Viacom, CBS, and Simon & Schuster--hung precariously in the...
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