Download or read book Television News, Politics and Young People written by M. Wayne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are young people alienated from television news? This book argues that contemporary trends indicating deepening disconnection from news about public life reflect both problems in the way television news covers politics - the single biggest item on the news - and problems with the nature of politics itself under neo-liberal capitalism.