The language of journalism: 2 Profanity, obscenity & the media
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| adam_text | PROFANITY,
OBSCENITY AND THE
MEDIA
The Language of
Journalism, Volume Two
Melvin J. Lasky
This is the second volume of Melvin
Lasky s The Language of Journalism,
praised as a brilliant and original
study in communications and
contemporary language, and as a joy
to read. It broke ground in focusing
on the comparative styles and
prejudices of mainstream American
and British newspapers, and in its
trenchant analysis of their systematic
debasement in the face of obligatory
platitudes and compulsory eu¬
phemisms.
Lasky s subtle and richly detailed
text documents the possibly terminal
crisis affecting honest, thoughtful, and
independent journalism in the Western
world. It extends the research in his
first volume, and deepens the
interpretation. It also adds the
personal touch of both wit and
anecdote expressed by an experienced
international journalist and historian.
The central chapters on the F-word
carry the public emergence of the
infamous expletive deleted beyond
the conventional lexicographer s
approach. Lasky s pages on the use of
formerly forbidden language is a
triumph of sinuous semantics. Here,
in incisive analysis, is the tortuous
struggle of a once Puritanized literary
culture writhing to break free of
censorship and self-censorship. Lasky
critically evaluates the historic effort
of the avant-garde of dirty realism to
find a path towards what he calls a
usable profanity. In the meantime,
newspaper style books become comic
texts, as asterisks take over from
square brackets and millions of
readers purse their lips and indulge in
participatory obscenity. In dealing
fully with the phenomenon of pro-
fanity, the new book adds another
dimension to Lasky s thesis on mass
culture s trivialization of real social
and political phenomena. It under¬
scores as well our society s embrace of
banality, in standardizing politically
correct jargon, slang, patois, pidgin,
and various other grunts and growls.
The reader of the first volume will
find here a wholly new range of
references to illuminate the detail of
what our newspapers have been
publishing, and how the alert and
sophisticated reader can make sense
of the realities they purport to
represent.
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PROFANITY,
OBSCENITY AND THE
MEDIA
The Language of
Journalism, Volume Two
Melvin J. Lasky
This is the second volume of Melvin
Lasky's The Language of Journalism,
praised as a "brilliant" and "original"
study in communications and
contemporary language, and as "a joy
to read." It broke ground in focusing
on the comparative styles and
prejudices of mainstream American
and British newspapers, and in its
trenchant analysis of their systematic
debasement in the face of obligatory
platitudes and compulsory eu¬
phemisms.
Lasky's subtle and richly detailed
text documents the possibly terminal
crisis affecting honest, thoughtful, and
independent journalism in the Western
world. It extends the research in his
first volume, and deepens the
interpretation. It also adds the
personal touch of both wit and
anecdote expressed by an experienced
international journalist and historian.
The central chapters on the "F-word"
carry the public emergence of the
infamous "expletive deleted" beyond
the conventional lexicographer's
approach. Lasky's pages on the use of
formerly forbidden language is a
triumph of sinuous semantics. Here,
in incisive analysis, is the tortuous
struggle of a once Puritanized literary
culture writhing to break free of
censorship and self-censorship. Lasky
critically evaluates the historic effort
of the avant-garde of "dirty realism" to
find a path towards what he calls "a
usable profanity." In the meantime,
newspaper style books become comic
texts, as asterisks take over from
square brackets and millions of
readers purse their lips and indulge in
"participatory obscenity." In dealing
fully with the phenomenon of pro-
fanity, the new book adds another
dimension to Lasky's thesis on mass
culture's trivialization of real social
and political phenomena. It under¬
scores as well our society's embrace of
banality, in standardizing politically
correct jargon, slang, patois, pidgin,
and various other "grunts and growls."
The reader of the first volume will
find here a wholly new range of
references to illuminate the detail of
what our newspapers have been
publishing, and how the alert and
sophisticated reader can make sense
of the realities they purport to
represent. |
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