Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy
How American media are failing our democracy, by the authors Bill Moyers calls the Paul Revere and Tom Paine of our time. As this book makes clear, the problem is deeper than the administration or the right-wing echo chamber... the very structure of our conglomerated media system conspires against real journalism and, hence, against truth.--Tim Robbins, from the Foreword Thomas Frank called Tragedy and Farce an appeal to reason in a dark time. Including the sharpest analysis of 2004 election coverage yet and the first detailed look at the burgeoning media reform movement, this book is both an expose and a call to action. In it John Nichols an…
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Weitere Autoren: McChesney, Robert W. / Tomorrow, Tom (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59558-129-7
- EAN: 9781595581297
- Produktnummer: 2452484
- Verlag: New Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 211 S.
- Masse: H20.7 cm x B14.2 cm x D1.4 cm 254 g
- Gewicht: 254
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John Nichols is The Nation's Washington correspondent, an editor at the Capital Times, and is co-founder of the national media reform organization Free Press. He is the author of The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney and Jews for Buchanan. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C.Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of some two dozen books on media and political economy, including Digital Disconnect, Communication Revolution, and the award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy; a co-author, with John Nichols, of Tragedy and Farce; and a co-editor, with Ben Scott, of Our Unfree Press, and, with Victor Pickard, of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights (all published by The New Press). McChesney and Nichols are also the co-authors of the award-winning Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America. McChesney's work has been translated into thirty-one languages. He lives in Champaign, Illinois, and Madison, Wisconsin.
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