Extreme Media and American Politics In Defense of Extremity
This book asks: what are extreme television media, and are they actually bad for American politics? Taylor explores these questions, and how these media affect political knowledge, trust, efficacy, tolerance, policy attitudes, and political behavior
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Extreme Media and American Politics
J. Benjamin Taylor
Extreme Media and American Politics In Defense of Extremity
J. Benjamin Taylor University of North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-41182-8 ISBN 978-3-319-41183-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41183-5
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to start by thanking Alexandra Dauler and Elaine Fan at Palgrave Macmillan for supporting this book through the editorial and publishing process. Elaine, specifically, was a tireless e-mail correspondent, and a valuable resource helping get this manuscript into printable condition. I would also like to give a hearty thank-you to the peer-reviewers of this work. Without a doubt, the final manuscript is vastly improved because of their suggestions and comments. This project began as a seed of an idea while I drove back and forth from home to graduate school at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. The traffic in Atlanta is well known for being horrible. While sitting in endless hours of bumper-to-bumper traffic crawls on I-20, I had the chance to listen to hours and hours of political talk radio. Because I was then, and am now, a news junkie, I also regularly watched Keith Olbermann and Glenn Beck on their respective cable channels. Discussions with friends and colleagues at GSU and conferences began to show me that these media—extreme media, extreme television in particular—got a lot of blame, but not a great deal of acknowledgment for the work they did educating the public. As I thought about the other possible positive aspects of extreme media, I was naturally dra
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