Edition 5: Addicted to Celebrity
The media is dominated by celebrity, swamped by lies and awash with propaganda.
Addicted to Celebrity explores our fascination with celebrity and its corrosive influence and goes inside the world of news and spin in search of fragile truths.
Writers include:
David Malouf, Bille Brown, Ruth Wajnryb, Mark Cherry, Gideon Haigh, Peter Beattie, Nancy Sikes, Margaret Simons, Matthew Condon, Catharine Lumby, Raimond Gaita, Bruce Page, Laurie Hergenhan,
Peter Manning, Tony Preston-Stanley, Stephen Stockwell, Paul Monk, Geoff Thompson, Stephen Sewell, Brendon O’Connor, Daniel Flitton, Peter Craven, Anthony May, Greg Barns, Marion Halligan and
Michael Wilding.
Book Details: RRP: $16.95 / Publication date: August 2005 / ISBN: 9780733314537 / Extent: 268 pp / Format: Paperback (234 x 153mm)
Contents
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Introduction
( 1 )
- Stars, lies and propaganda (Edition Introduction) Julianne Schultz
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Essay
( 14 )
- When politicians lie: reflections on truth, politics and patriotism Raimond Gaita
- Using ends to justify means Brian Urquhart
- Spinning the fabric of reality Stephen Stockwell
- The house of fear and the house of war Stephen Sewell
- Ten commandments of spin Nick Richardson
- Delusion without variation Bruce Page
- A virtuoso in soft covers Anthony May
- A colonial state of mind Peter Manning
- Fifteen minutes David Malouf
- Out of the slipstream Catharine Lumby
- A cook's life Marion Halligan
- No one to blame Gideon Haigh
- Celebrating “selfebrity” Mark Cherry (dec.)
- Orchestrating the myth Greg Barns
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Policy
( 2 )
- Who guards the guardians? Peter Beattie
- Learning to see Paul Monk
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Review
( 3 )
- Gallipoli's lifetime legacy Laurie Hergenhan
- Bush-bashing: the hated and the haters Brendon O'Connor
- Enthralled by shadows Peter Craven
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Reportage
( 3 )
- An affront to democracy? Nancy Sikes
- Life without reputation Margaret Simons
- Electing for election Daniel Flitton
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Memoir
( 5 )
- Herself Bille Brown
- “Don’t I know you?” Michael Wilding
- The knife meets the whetstone Matthew Condon
- Three months in Baghdad Tony Preston-Stanley
- One day in Dili Geoff Thompson