Profanity, obscenity & the media. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Profanity, obscenity and the media
• Further Information: Note: Melvin J. Lasky.
• Authors: Lasky, Melvin J
• Contents: Part 1: Towards a theory of journalistic malpractice. 1. From A.N. Whitehead to Irving Kristol -- 2. The little lie and the big story -- 3. Difficulties in grappling with reality -- 4. The new shamanism -- Part 2: Sex and other ongoing titillations. 5. The ennui of obscenity -- 6. "O Propheta" -- 7. Chaucer and a choice of taboo words -- 8. Strong odors, blurred pictures -- 9. Obsessions with the S-word -- 10. The case of the missing f**r-l****r word -- 11. Asterisks: from Byron to Madonna -- 12. Who's afraid of the big, bad F-word? -- 13. Tiger, the Times, and a dreaded black asterisk -- 14. Morphing the A-word -- 15. Terms of agreement and endearment -- 16. The Mergenthaler option -- 17. A matter of illegitimacy -- 18. The guard that failed -- 19. The desperate search for "the good bits" -- 20. Swearing is the curse -- Part 3: Literary origins and popular consequences. 21. Sources of malpractice -- 22. From Wordsworth to Orwell and Hemingway -- 23. The prose we write and speak -- 24. Dealing with the grandmother tongue -- 25. Quotations that were unquoted -- 26. Dirty realism in the White House and beyond -- 27. Towards a vocabulary of pop diplomacy.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (362 pages)
• Subjects: 070.401/4; Journalism -- Language; Language and culture; Journalism -- Language; Language and culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351480277; 1351480278
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