Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 182-195 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
| Volume | 625 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2009 |
Keywords
- Nationalism
- News
- News technologies
- Telegraph
- Television
- Transitional object
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