9780380810451

Dish: How Gossip Became the News and the News Became Just Another Show

ISBN 10: 038081045X / 0-380-81045-X
ISBN 13: 9780380810451
Publisher: Perennial
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Softcover
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Synopsis:

Gossip.It's more than just hearsay. society columns, and supermarket tabloids.It has, like it or not, become a mainstay of American pop culture.In Dish, industry insider Jeannette Walls gives this provocative subject its due, offering a comprehensive, serious exploration of gossip and its social, historical, and political significance.Examining the topic from the inside out, Walls looks at the players; the origins of gossip, from birth of People magazine to the death of Ladi Di; and how technology including the Internet will continue to change the face gossip.As compelling and seductive as its subject matter, Dish brilliantly reveals the fascinating inner workings of a phenomenon that is definitely here to stay.


Review:

"Here is a Janus-faced muckraker, one side telling how ink is spilled on the keyhole revelations, the other offering some fun in a naughty mudbath. Snoopy scatoscopy at its juiciest."

Kirkus, 1/15/2000

Review:

"Wall's book is informative....DISH is at its best when detailing the often-ignominious backgrounds of some of today's most ubiquitous news figures."

Charles Winecoff, Entertainment Weekly, 03/10/2000

 

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Book Description: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Perennial ed. 202 x 135 mm. Brand New Book. Here is a fascinating and serious look at five decades of dish: a behind-the-scenes examination of the personalities that control what we read and see; the unholy and unchanging trinity of celebrity, publicist, and reporter that has stoked the American appetite for gossip from the salad days of silver-screen magazines to the instantaneous communication of the scoop-filled internet. From the birth of the National Enquirer to the death of Princess Diana, Jeannette Walls gives us an insider's tour of the dangerously shimmering world of gossip. Filled with fascinating insights into everything from the origins of People magazine to the truth behind Elizabeth Taylor's special friendship with Michael Jackson, this is an important sociological study and "does a terrific job showing how the two divorced parties of news and gossip managed to get dragged back to the altar - kicking and screaming all the way - in the latter half of the 20th century" (Toronto Sun). Dish was a featured alternate of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Quality Paperback Book Club. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780380810451

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