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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kerbel, Matthew Robert, 1958- If it bleeds, it leads. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000 (OCoLC)607458621 Online version: Kerbel, Matthew Robert, 1958- If it bleeds, it leads. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000 (OCoLC)629023363 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew Robert Kerbel |
| ISBN: | 0813368367 9780813368368 |
| OCLC Number: | 42652711 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xiii, 149 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Syndicated Talk (The Actual Program You See Will Vary Depending on Where You Live) -- Station Identification -- Opening Montage (Roll Tape) -- Meet the Hosts -- Meet the Guests -- Supply Medical Treatment for the Guests -- Begin First Protracted Shoving, Punching, and Deleted Dialogue Segment Between Best Friends Who Care About Each Other a Lot -- Add Fuel to Fire; Cue Second Bouncer -- Begin 2-Minute 45-Second Sibling Shoving, Punching, and Deleted Dialogue Segment -- Add More Fuel to Fire; Alert Hospital to Prepare for Injuries -- Everyone Realizes This Is the Show -- Prepare to Pay Bouncers Overtime -- Live at Five (Dead by Six) -- Tease -- Inventing a Riot -- A Reassuring Segue -- Only Popular Restaurants Are Dangerous -- Ad Time-Out: You Will Be on Television -- Feeling the Barometric Pressure -- What Ever Happened to the Story About the Breast Implants? -- Movie--or Reality? -- The Great Baking Powder Incident -- Promo -- Ad Time-Out: You Can Be a Newswriter -- First Feature: It Could Happen Any Time Without Warning -- Segue into Terrifying Weather -- Air Quality -- Weather Time-Out: You Can Be a Weathercaster -- Dessert -- How Many Times Can One Car Smash into a House? -- Minor Injuries, Major Pictures -- Wicked Winds -- Ad Time-Out: May Is the Cruelest Month. February's Not So Great, Either -- Second Feature: Extreme Sex -- What's Really Important in Philadelphia -- Exactly Why Do They Need Weather Reports in San Diego? -- Ad Time-Out: You Can Be a News Director -- Score! -- Now, an Ad for an Ad -- Third Feature: Implants. |
| Responsibility: | Matthew R. Kerbel. |
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Abstract:
"Takes you minute-by-minute through two and a half riveting hours of syndicated, local, and network information programming to uncover the truth behind what passes as news". -- Jacket.
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