Thinking Critically About Media and Politics:

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ISBN: 9781612052748

ISBN-10: 1612052746

ISBN-13: 9781612052748

Edition: 2013

Authors: Donald Lazere

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This book highlights opposing viewpoints between conservative and liberal polemicists about today's most controversial issues in current media and politics. It draws on the study of semantics, emphasizing the role of verbal slanting and emotional appeal through connotative language. Semantic misunderstandings constantly result from varying subjective viewpoints and connotative spins on the very words liberal and conservative and on related words like democracy, capitalism, and socialism. Lazere provides a basic guide to the complexities of these terms and critiques their ambiguous use in partisan politics and media. He also identifies the political positions of a spectrum of American media…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Paradigm Pub
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.220
Language: English




Introduction: An Appeal to Students



Thinking Critically about Political Rhetoric



Thinking Critically about Mass Media



Special Interests and Propaganda



Advertising and Hype



Analyzing Economic Arguments and Statistical Trickery


Appendix: Glossary of Logical and Rhetorical Fallacies Directory of Political Media*


Bibliography


Index