Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming

by James T. Hamilton

Book Overview

"If it bleeds, it leads." The phrase captures television news directors' famed preference for opening newscasts with the most violent stories they can find. And what is true for news is often true for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691048487
• ISBN13: 9780691048482
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

WOW! Hamilton makes a convincing argument

Hamilton is one of the greatest minds concerning the subject of media politics that the nation has seen in recent years. His book Channeling Violence is a think piece that concerns violence in the media by comparing the epidemic to that of pollution. From the first words I was blown away with the ideas and vernacular that Hamilton uses, he definately has mastered the craft of writing.