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Article: Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism.(BRIEF ENCOUNTERS)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
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- January 1, 2008
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Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism By Umberto Eco; translated by Alastair McEwen Harcourt 369 pages, $27
BESIDES BEING A NOVELIST (e.g., The Name of the Rose), J Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics of international standing, and a prolific and accessible commentator on topics political and otherwise. The title refers to what he sees as a regression toward old-fashioned wars and hatreds, though he treats these matters briefly. The collection centers on pieces written during Italy's age of Berlusconi, when the same man ran both the government and the major media. (Imagine a Rupert Murdoch in the White House.) Eco meditates on the fate of ...
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