Life in a Tabloid World
Celebrity secrets, concealed cameras, political peccadilloes, trash TV, crass confessions, and vulgar videotapes. Welcome to life in a tabloid world. From public figures trapped by the ordinary to ordinary people tangled in extraordinary events, media scandals now saturate our screens and front pages. 'Gotcha' investigates the rise of tabloid media culture. Catharine Lumby argues that laments about modern culture are shortsighted and that the tabloid tide heralds a more democratic era. In a provocative survey of the salacious and the chastened, Lamby suggests we need to embrace a new ethics of public life and collective conversation.
