On Television
Pierre Bourdieu
Language: English
Pages: 112
ISBN: 1565845129
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Hailed by the New York Times as "illuminating...vivid and clearheaded," Pierre Bourdieu's "acid appraisal [of television] will provide shudders of recognition for American readers" (Publishers Weekly). France's leading sociologist shows how, far from reflecting the tastes of the majority, television, particularly television journalism, imposes ever-lower levels of political and social discourse on us all. Quickly selling out its first hardcover edition, On Television has provoked widespread comment among journalists, academics, and television viewers. Katha Pollitt wrote, "anyone seriously interested in journalism must read this book," and Todd Gitlin called it "indispensable."
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Speak couldn't even imagine), you have to help people talk. To put it in nobler terms, I'll say that this is the Socratic mission in all its glory. You put yourself at the service of someone with something important to say, someone whose words you want to hear and whose thoughts interest you, and you work to help get the words out. But this isn't at all what television moderators do: not only do they not help people unaccustomed to public platforms but they inhibit them in many ways- by not 34.
Television's increased (relative) power in the space of the means of diffusion and of the greater market pressures on this newly dominant medium, shows up in the shift from a national cultural policy, which once worked through television, to a sort of ------- 48 49 PIERRE BOURDIEU ON TELEVISION spontaneistic demagoguery. While this change affects television in particular, it has also contaminated supposedly serious newspapers-witness the greater and greater space given over to letters to.
Lynching. Take your time, think about what you're doing." Lawyers' groups got involved, denouncing the appeal to vigilante justice ... Pressure mounted, and when things finally settled down, life imprisonment without parole had been reinstated. This film run fast forward shows clearly how a perverse 64 PIERRE BOURDIEU form of direct democracy can come into play when the media act in a way that is calculated to mobilize the public. Such "direct democracy" maximizes the effect both of the.
This collectivity be able to maximize the potential for universalism-today in danger of extinction-that is contained within the Olympic Garnes." TRANSLATOR'S NOTE I 'I II As Pierre Bourdieu explains, this work aims at an audience beyond the usual public for his scholarly works. To make connections to the French situation, for the most part all AngloAmerican readers need do is follow Bourdieu's reasoning, supplying their own equivalents from Britain or the U.S. or, indeed, elsewhere. However,.
Responsibility is to share what we have found. I have always tried to ask myself these questions before deciding whether or not to agree to public appearances. These are questions that I would like everyone invited to appear on television to pose or be forced to pose because"the television audience and the television critics pose them: Do I have something to say? Can I say it in these conditions? Is what I have to say worth saying here and now? In a word, what am I doing here? INVISIBLE.