Inside the Sports Pages: Work Routines, Professional Ideologies, and the Manufacture of Sports News - Tapa dura

Lowes, Mark Douglas

 
9780802043597: Inside the Sports Pages: Work Routines, Professional Ideologies, and the Manufacture of Sports News
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ISBN 10: 0802043593 ISBN 13: 9780802043597
Editorial: University of Toronto Press, 1999

Sinopsis

Inside the Sports Pages explores the working world of contemporary sports journalism through the eyes of the reporters, editors, athletes and media-relations people who inhabit it.

In this first comprehensive study of the work routines and professional ideologies involved in the manufacture of sports news, Mark Douglas Lowes presents a detailed and richly textured ethnographic account of life on the sports desk at a major Canadian daily newspaper. His wide-ranging analysis considers the role of the 'audience commodity' in sports news production, the dynamics of the newsroom, and the complex relations between reporters and their routine sources on the sports beat. The book concludes with an assessment of the ideological nature of sports news, and argues that sports coverage functions primarily as a promotional vehicle for the North American 'major league' sports industry. It will be of interest to anyone concerned about how the media report sports news- and the way they leave some of it unreported.

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Acerca del autor

Mark Douglas Lowes is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa.

De la contraportada

'This study adds considerably to the literature on the sports-journalism process.'

'Sport is now, on all levels, indistinguishable from commercial entertainment. Lowes traces one reason for this development - the servile assistance rendered by writers for Canada's sports pages. There can be no doubt after reading Lowes' book that this unholy symbiosis is part of a larger cultural progression toward greater and more integrated corporate systems. Not only do fans root for "laundry" - players that will be gone tomorrow, replaced by others - we see precious little in the sports pages that corporate entertainment does not want us to see.'

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Editorial
University of Toronto Press
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0802043593
ISBN 13 
9780802043597
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
150
Contacto del fabricante
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