Media Scandals: Morality and Desire in the Popular Culture Marketplace James Lull (San Jose State University)
This is the first volume to evaluate scandal as a mass-mediated, globalized phenomenon. Top scholars examine how institutions and personalities ranging from politics, religion and big business to TV talkshows, sports, and popular music, become converted into scandalous commodities that drive tabloids, trash TV and respectable media too. By exploring how scandals fuel mass media and popular culture, this timely book will stimulate much discussion about this fascinating subject.
This will be essential reading for students and scholars in media studies, cultural studies, journalism/mass communication, communication studies and sociology.