A surprising bestseller when it was first published in France, this little book by Pierre Bourdieu offers a brilliant critique of television and its consequences for social and political life. Rather than simply denouncing television as a misrepresentation or trivialization of the social world, Bourdieu shows that television journalists are part of a journalistic field that shapes their actions and imposes a particular vision on the public, a vision that is grounded in the very structure of the journalistic field and that, through a variety of mechanisms specific to this field, produces a general disenchantment with politics.

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Prologue Journalism and Politics Preface Part One In Front of the Camera and Behind the Scenes Part Two Invisible Structures and Their Effects The Power of Journalism Appendix The Olympics - An Agenda for Analysis Translator''s Note Bibliography Notes Index