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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Absolution For Couch Potatoes

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Newsweek
June 2, 2008

By Tony Dokoupil

The knock on television news has long been that it emphasizes style over substance. But style, it turns out, may have some serious substance of its own. In their forthcoming book, "Image Bite Politics," Indiana University researchers Erik Bucy and Maria Grabe offer absolution for couch potatoes, defending the flickering tube as a source of valuable political information.

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