The updated and revised edition of this volume maintains its focus on the dialectic interrelation between 'news' and 'change'. News is intended as a textual type in its evolutionary - and revolutionary - development, while change is discussed with reference to the form, content …
"This is the second volume of Melvin J. Lasky's The Language of Journalism series, praised as a "brilliant" and "original" study in communications and contemporary language, and as "a joy to read." When it was first published, it broke ground in focusing on the comparative style…
"The language of journalism is examined, its spelendors and miseries - including cliches and trivia, sensationalism and prurience, wit and witlessness, fiction and faction, pseudery and jabberwocky, scoops and hoaxes, racism and sexism, profanity and obsenity, virtue and reality…
