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Cracked Coverage : Television News, The Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy /

Carefully documenting the deceptions and excesses of television news coverage of the so-called cocaine epidemic, Cracked Coverage stands as a bold indictment of the backlash politics of the Reagan coalition and its implicit racism, the mercenary outlook of the drug control establishment, and the ent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Reeves, Jimmie Lynn (Autor), Campbell, Richard, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Re-Covering the War on Drugs. 1. The Cocaine Narrative: A Thoroughly Modern Morality Tale. 2. Merchants of Modern Discipline: The Drug Control Establishment. 3. Visualizing the Drug News: Journalistic Surveillance/Spectacle. 4. Reaganism: The Packaging of Backlash Politics
  • pt. II. Interrogating the Cocaine Narrative. 5. The Trickle-Down Paradigm: White Pow(d)er and Therapeutic Recovery. 6. The Siege Paradigm: Rewriting the Cocaine Narrative. 7. Captivating Public Opinion: The Ventriloquist Turn. 8. Family Matters: Nurturing Normalcy/Reproducing Delinquency. 9. Denouement: Second Thoughts
  • Epilogue: Spin-Offs
  • Appendix A: Cocaine Stories
  • Appendix B: Noncocaine Stories
  • Appendix C: Chronology of Kernel Events in the Cocaine Narrative.