Television news, politics and young people : generation disconnected? / Mike Wayne ... [et al.]. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - ix, 235 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why are young people alienated from television news? This text argues that contemporary trends indicating deepening disconnection from news about public life reflect both problems in the way television news covers politics and problems with the nature of politics itself under neo-liberal capitalism.

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Television broadcasting of news--Great Britain.
Television and youth--Great Britain.
Youth--Political activity--Great Britain.
Youth--Attitudes.--Great Britain
Youth on television.
Media Studies.

PN5124.T4 / T45 2010

791.45 WAY