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This text is a compilation of essays on changes in culture and the media and the dangers of their manipulation.
Source: Sunday Telegraph

Credit: Chris Woodhead

"The lively intelligence of the essays... cannot and must not be dismissed as the rabid posturing of tired old traditionalists. The debate they ought to inspire is a debate our country desperately needs."

Source: Daily Mail

Credit: Geoffrey Wheatcroft

"If there is hope at all, it lies in the existence of books like this."

Source: PN Review

Credit: Laurence Coupe

"At last we have a map of the moronic inferno... perhaps, then, this volume may take its place in the canon of critique."

Source: Literary Review

Credit: Septimus Waugh

"An entertaining and informative read, well worth £12.95."

Source: Contemporary Review

Credit: George Wedd

"Well-selected and serious essays by known and established writers."

Source: Chronicles

Credit: Derek Turner

"Page after page of wise insights, acerbic observations, and (mostly) demonstrable propositions... likely to rule unchallenged for a long time to come."

Credit: Marina Warner

"Bold, straight-talking polemic, Dumbing Down tackles the necessary questions of our time."

Credit: Sir John Keegan

"Dumbing down concerns us all. This book is an admirable protest against the process."

Credit: Anthony O'Hear

"Dumbing Down raises important questions, which most of us would rather not hear, and which our public culture lacks the confidence to deal with."
Paperback
- Publication Date: 21 March 2000
- ISBN-13: 9780907845652
- Extent: Main content page count : 320
- Code: 907845657
- Dimensions: 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.7 cm
- Weight: 700 grams
- List Price: £14.95
- ONIX Version 2.1, Version 3

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Title: Dumbing Down
Subtitle: Culture, Politics and the Mass Media
Edited by: Ivo Mosley
Language: English
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Imprint: Imprint Academic

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