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Where Ideas Go to Die explores the troubled relationship of US journalism and intellect. A defender of common sense, the press is irked at intellect yet often dependent on its critical autonomy. The social control of intellect by journalism is accompanied by social control of journalism in newsrooms and in classrooms where norms are cultivated. Anti-intellectualism consequently operates like dark matter in media, a presence inferred by its effects rather than directly observed or acknowledged. When journalists anticipate a punitive public, the reified resentment is no more real than the fiction of omnipotent citizens in democratic theory, yet the audience imagined compels how intellect is rendered in the news as nuisance, deviance, or object of ridicule. Interviews with 25 "dangerous professors" demonstrate how alliances in the academic-media nexus can seed intellect in newswork.

Journalism and intellect : a vexed relationship -- Peopling of the journalistic imagination : four kinds of anti-intellectualism -- Eclipse of reflexivity in the rise of Trump -- The academic-media nexus -- Policing of intellectual transgressions : news as a recursive regime -- Social drama at macro and micro levels : the fractal control of dissent -- Deviant in residence : idea rendering and repair in the parochial press -- Closing of the journalism mind : anti-intellectualism among college students -- In my buggy : how dangerous professors seed intellect in a hybrid field -- What intellectual journalism would look like.