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Volume 51, Issue 2
1 March 1999
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Aslib Proceedings
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Case Report| March 01 1999

Dumbing down: the only way is up Available to Purchase

Robin Hunt
Robin Hunt
Creative Director, arehaus Publishing and New Media Consultancy, Universal House, 251 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0AB
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-3748
Print ISSN: 0001-253X
© MCB UP Limited
1999
Aslib Proceedings (1999) 51 (2): 46–53.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006961

Analyses the “dumbing down” syndrome highlighting main quotes from BBC online, Kirkus Reviews and an interview between Roan Hoag of Amazon.xom and Pete Hamill whose book “News is a Verb” which attempts to unmask US journalism’s dumbing down. Looks at various tabloid‐style choices of sensational headlines giving examples of these. Concludes that unlike the technology world, newspaper and broadcasting world is full of dreamers staring only at their own reflection!.

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Media, Newspaper publishing, Journal publishing
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