Where Ideas Go to Die
The Fate of Intellect in American Journalism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 June 2020
- ISBN 9780190869953
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages268 pages
- Size 159x241x19 mm
- Weight 513 g
- Language English 41
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Short description:
Ideas die at the hands of journalists. This is the controversial thesis offered by Michael McDevitt in a sweeping examination of anti-intellectualism in American journalism. A murky presence, anti-intellectualism is not acknowledged by reporters and editors. It is not easily measured by scholars, as it entails opportunities not taken, context not provided, ideas not examined. Where Ideas Go to Die will be the first book to engage in a serious study of the issue, at a time when thoughtful examination of our society's news media is arguably more important than ever.
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Ideas die at the hands of journalists. This is the controversial thesis offered by Michael McDevitt in a sweeping examination of anti-intellectualism in American journalism. A murky presence, anti-intellectualism is not acknowledged by reporters and editors. It is not easily measured by scholars, as it entails opportunities not taken, context not provided, ideas not examined. Where Ideas Go to Die will be the first book to document how journalism polices intellect at a time when thoughtful examination of our society's news media is arguably more important than ever.
Through analysis of media encounters with dissent since 9/11, McDevitt argues that journalism engages in a form of social control, routinely suppressing ideas that might offend audiences. McDevitt is not arguing that journalists are consciously or purposely controlling ideas, but rather that resentment of intellectuals and suspicion of intellect are latent in journalism and that such sentiment manifests in the stories journalists choose to tell, or not to tell. In their commodification of knowledge, journalists will, for example, "clarify" ideas to distill deviance; dismiss nuance as untranslatable; and funnel productive ideas into static, partisan binaries. Anti-intellectualism is not unique to American media. Yet, McDevitt argues that it is intertwined with the nation's cultural history, and consequently baked into the professional training that occurs in classrooms and newsrooms. He offers both a critique of our nation's media system and a way forward, to a media landscape in which journalists recognize the prevalence of anti-intellectualism and take steps to avoid it, and in which journalism is considered an intellectual profession.
One of the book's chief strengths is the way its substantive chapters take a multimodal approach to interrogating how anti-intellectualism manifests in journalistic text, practice, and education. ... One leaves this book with a deeper understanding of how an obligation to preserving enduring normative standards can leave practitioners, educators, and advocates alike blind to all the ways journalism's institutional arrangements are built on a compromise with more unsavory realities.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
1 Journalism and Intellect: A Vexed Relationship
Part I: News Media and Democratic Decline
2 Peopling of the Journalistic Imagination: Four Kinds of Anti-intellectualism
3 Eclipse of Reflexivity in the Rise of Trump
Part II: Social Control of Intellect
4 The Academic-Media Nexus
5 Policing of Intellectual Transgressions: News as a Recursive Regime
6 Social Drama at Macro and Micro Levels: The Fractal Control of Dissent
7 Deviant in Residence: Idea Rendering and Repair in the Parochial Press
Part III: Education and Reform
8 Closing of the Journalism Mind: Anti-intellectualism among College Students
9 In My Buggy: How Dangerous Professors Seed Intellect in a Hybrid Field
10 What Intellectual Journalism Would Look Like
Appendix
