TY - JOUR
T1 - Television news and the nation
T2 - The end?
AU - Blondheim, Menahem
AU - Liebes, Tamar
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - The golden age of television news gave a large majority of otherwise diverse Americans a unified, seamless, and clear-cut image of their nation, its central players, and its agenda. Carefully scheduled, edited, sequenced, and branded, heard and seen simultaneously across America, it provided a pretense of order to the chaos that is news. The permanence and stability of the nation, as expressed in a complex way by TV news, provided Americans with an all-important sense of existential security experienced on an unarticulated emotional level. Today, a disjointed news environment is crushing the nature of network news as a transitional object. Television news no longer reassures viewers by connecting them to a surmountable world out there but carries them on a loop from themselves to themselves.
AB - The golden age of television news gave a large majority of otherwise diverse Americans a unified, seamless, and clear-cut image of their nation, its central players, and its agenda. Carefully scheduled, edited, sequenced, and branded, heard and seen simultaneously across America, it provided a pretense of order to the chaos that is news. The permanence and stability of the nation, as expressed in a complex way by TV news, provided Americans with an all-important sense of existential security experienced on an unarticulated emotional level. Today, a disjointed news environment is crushing the nature of network news as a transitional object. Television news no longer reassures viewers by connecting them to a surmountable world out there but carries them on a loop from themselves to themselves.
KW - Nationalism
KW - News
KW - News technologies
KW - Telegraph
KW - Television
KW - Transitional object
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349099513&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0002716209338574
DO - 10.1177/0002716209338574
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AN - SCOPUS:70349099513
SN - 0002-7162
VL - 625
SP - 182
EP - 195
JO - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
JF - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
IS - 1
ER -