Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy

By Eric Alterman

Book Overview

For this new edition, Eric Alterman has made revisions throughout the book, with new material on the impact of the O. J. Simpson trial and the rise of MSNBC as well as on the Clinton scandals, the media's obsession with Monica Lewinsky, and the resulting conflation of investigative reporting with gossip.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486394
• ISBN13: 9780801486395
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

From Lippmandom to punditocracy

In looking up the author's What Liberal Media I came acroos this interesting piece, from the hyperborean age of emerging punditocracy. Omit the last chapter and the book still works very well as commentary for the age of Bush II. Beginning in the nineteenth century (or else the pamphleteering of the American Revolution)with the appropriation of the Hindu term 'pandit', the book recounts the saga of the first great pundit, Lippman, thence to the age of the Reagan pundit wars. Good starting point for the current media debriefing going on in the reaction to the Bush era.