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Tragedy & Farce - How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections and Destroy Democracy*
Tragedy & Farce - How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections and Destroy Democracy* 

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*and what you can do to change things...

Nichols and McChesney - two of the country's leading media analysts - argue that the contemporary crisis in journalism is due not to individual incompetence, but to corrupt policy making that has radically changed U.S. media. During the 2004 election, and throughout the Iraq war and occupation, Americans have been starved of democracy's oxygen: accurate information. More than anything, George Bush, or even Karl Rove did, the media's glaring mis-coverage of the campaign and war decided the election. Most disturbingly, the flawed coverage reflects new, structural problems within U.S. journalism.

Tragedy and Farce dissects the media failures of recent years and show how they expose the decline in resources and standards for political journalism - as well as the methodical campaign by the political right to control the news cycle. In our highly concentrated media system - one that is the domain of billionaire investors and massive corporations -it has become commercially and politically irrational to do the kind of journalism a self-governing society requires. This is the broadest and hardest-hitting book about American media today, it will both educate and inspire, and presents a concise plan of what the people can do about it.

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Author John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney
ISBN# 1-59558-129-4
Type Quality Paperback
Year 2005
Pages 220
Illustrated yes
Base Cost 7.50
Price: $14.95

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