Background
NEWMAN, Edwin was born on January 25, 1919 in New York, United States. Son of Myron Newman and Rose Parker Newman.
(A compilation of two best-selling essays on the deteriora...)
A compilation of two best-selling essays on the deterioration of the English language--Strictly Speaking and A Civil Tongue--argue that the state of the language is a direct reflection on the state of society.
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(When Edwin Newman was but a lad, bright, cheery, and unbe...)
When Edwin Newman was but a lad, bright, cheery, and unbearable, he was told to keep a civil tongue in his head, i.e., shut up. He did, but since then he has expanded his understanding of what a civil tongue means. To him it means a language that is not bogged down in jargon, not studded with trick phrases, not weighed down with gelatinous verbiage of Washington and the social sciences. It is direct, specific, concrete, vigorous, colorful, subtle, and imaginative, and as lucid and eloquent as we are able to make it. A smog of jargon is settling on our fair land. Newman blows it away with sweet reason and sour comments. A Civil Tongue is high comedy in a serious cause.
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( Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural...)
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. Likewise, DVDs and DVRs, web video, HDTV, and mobile devices have shifted the longstanding conception of television as a household appliance toward a new understanding of TV as a sophisticated, high-tech gadget. Newman and Levine argue that television’s growing prestige emerges alongside the convergence of media at technological, industrial, and experiential levels. Television is permitted to rise in respectability once it is connected to more highly valued media and audiences. Legitimation works by denigrating "ordinary" television associated with the past, distancing the television of the present from the feminized and mass audiences assumed to be inherent to the "old" TV. It is no coincidence that the most validated programming and technologies of the convergence era are associated with a more privileged viewership. The legitimation of television articulates the medium with the masculine over the feminine, the elite over the mass, reinforcing cultural hierarchies that have long perpetuated inequalities of gender and class. Legitimating Television urges readers to move beyond the question of taste—whether TV is "good" or "bad"—and to focus instead on the cultural, political, and economic issues at stake in television’s transformation in the digital age.
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NEWMAN, Edwin was born on January 25, 1919 in New York, United States. Son of Myron Newman and Rose Parker Newman.
Bachelor, University Wisconsin, 1940. Postgraduate (fellow), Louisiana State University, 1940.
With Washington bureau International News Service, 1941, U.P., 1941-1942, 45-46, New York Daily Prime Minister, 1946-1947. Independent Washington news bureau, 1947. Assistant to Eric Sevareid at Washington bureau Columbia Broadcasting System, 1947-1949.
Freelance writer, broadcaster London, 1949-1952. With European Recovery Program, 1951-1952, NBC, 1952—1956, chief news bureau London, 1956-1957, Rome, 1957-1958, Paris, 1958-1961, news commentator New York City, 1961-1983. Columnist King Features Syndicate, 1984-1989.
Moderator 1st Ford-Carter Debate, 1976, 2d Reagan-Mondale debate, 1984.
(A compilation of two best-selling essays on the deteriora...)
( Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural...)
(When Edwin Newman was but a lad, bright, cheery, and unbe...)
(A dry, witty, humorous novel by the late television comme...)
Narrator: television specialists including Japan: East is West, 1961, Orient Express, 1964, Who Shall Live?, 1965, Politics: The Outer Fringe, 1966, Pensions-The Broken Promise, 1972, Violence in America, 1977, I Want It All Now, 1978, Spying for Uncle Sam, 1978, Oil and American Power, 1979, The Billionaire Hunts, 1981, Congress: We the People, 1983-1984, On Television, 1985-1986, Freud, 1987, The Borgias, 1988. Host Saturday Night Live, 1984. Drama critic WNB C-television, 1965-1971 (Emmy awards 1966, 68, 70, 72, 73, 74, 82, Peabody award 1966).Author: Strictly Speaking: Will America Be The Death of English?, 1974, A Civil Tongue, 1976, Sunday Punch, 1979, I Must Say, 1988. Contributor articles and reviews to various periodicals, United States, Canada and England. Chairman usage panel American Heritage Dictionary, 1975-1980.
Served from ensign to lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1945. Member American Federation of television and Radio Artists, Authors Guild, Screen Actors Guild.
Tennis, music, reading.
Married Rigel Grell, August 14, 1944. 1 child, Nancy (Mistress Henry Drucker).