News as Entertainment. The Rise of Global Infotainment, Paperback/Daya Thussu

A study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers an analysis of this emerging phenomenon. It argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which 'soft news' masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism. Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc Author(s): Daya Thussu Number of pages: 224 Publication date: 2009 Dimensions: 231 x 163 x 14 Cover type: Paperback / softback