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All Monica All The Time: Crowding Out The Public Discourse

All Monica All The Time: Crowding Out The Public Discourse

Authors :
Charles J. Fox
Hugh T. Miller
Source :
Administrative Theory & Praxis. 27:486-497
Publication Year :
2005
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2005.

Abstract

Five years ago we wrote a book titled Postmodern Public Adminis tration (1995) which, in chapter three, outlined the postmodern condi tion. The following essay may be regarded as a revisiting of that problematic. As a generalization we are not pleased?things have got ten worse; they have not improved. Such a position is not exceptional, indeed we fear that whatever insights we bring to bear are little more profound than CNN's Sunday show: Reliable Sources, with Howard Kurts and Bernard Kalb. Still, our analysis has always been informed by postmodern political philosophy. So, perhaps added depth can be claimed because we are grounded in insights of thinkers with funny sounding names. So, what can we add beyond the commonplace observations that there is a proliferation of media sources, a collapsing of entertainment with news, a further collapsing of tabloid news and "straight" elite news; the credentialing of talking heads hoping for celebrity status jux taposed against "serious" journalists, perhaps also hoping for the same status.

Details

ISSN :
19490461 and 10841806
Volume :
27
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Administrative Theory & Praxis
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........fa4cacfb49215e911585624651a8cf24
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2005.11029502