Not So Prime Time: Chasing the Trivial on American Television - Softcover

Roenberg, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156663671X ISBN 13: 9781566636711

Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2005

Synopsis

In this witty and candid perspective on American television, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Howard Rosenberg traces a disturbing pattern: TV's relentless pursuit of the mundane in its seeming quest to dumb-down America. And, he writes, it may be succeeding. The longer mediocrity endures, Mr. Rosenberg advises, the greater the chance we will become permanently desensitized to it―and seduced by it―making third-rate the standard.

About this title

About the Author

Howard Rosenberg was the Los Angeles Times's TV critic for twenty-five years before his retirement in 2003. He won the Pulitzer Prize and two National Headliner awards for his commentary and reporting; his writing has also appeared in a great many magazines. Mr. Rosenberg now teaches news ethics in the Annenberg School and criticism in the film-television school at the University of Southern California. He lives in Agoura Hills, California, near Los Angeles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156663671X
• ISBN 13: 9781566636711
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288