Title The Death of Discourse

Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (321 pages) Summary In this innovative book, the authors persuasively argue that the First Amendment to the Constitution has risen in the late twentieth century, like an ill guided individual with knife in hand, to murder a longstanding tradition of fine and meaningful discourse in the United States. We are bombarded with the cacophony of advertisement, the luridity of pornography, and the pointlessness of prime timepoor substitutes for intelligent consideration of ideas. }In this innovative book, the authors persuasively argue that the First Amendment to the Constitution has risen in the late twentieth century, like an ill-guided individual with knife in hand, to murder a long-standing tradition of fine and meaningful discourse in the United States. What has died is the essential kind of political discourse which promotes democracy; informs citizens; enlivens debate; and carries reason, method, and purpose. Instead, we are bombarded with the cacophony of advertisement, the luridity of pornography, and the pointlessness of prime time. With satirical spirit and wityet to a very serious purpose the narrative of this lively study calls upon many of the very tricks it criticizes. The text is augmented by amusing tales, poetry, tv zaps, eyebites, and boxes of aphorisms resonating between high and low culture, between Plato and Geraldo and Madonna and Mahler to make its points, the discussion reveals how discourse in contemporary America has lost its integrity and its soul Notes Ronald K L Collins is the Harold S Shefelman Scholar at University of Washington School of Law Print version record Subject Freedom of speech -- United States -- Popular works Freedom of speech -- Social aspects Mass media -- United States -- Language Popular culture -- United States -- Language SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. Freedom of speech Freedom of speech -- Social aspects Mass media -- Language Popular culture -- Language United States Genre/Form Popular works Form Electronic book Author Skover, David M., 1951- ISBN 9781000243895 1000243893 9780429309908 0429309902 9781000279832 1000279839 1000315770 9781000315776

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