Description
Book SynopsisArgues that the media, far from providing a bedrock for freedom and democracy, have become a significant antidemocratic force in the United States and, to varying degrees, worldwide. This title addresses the corporate media explosion and the corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes our times.
Trade Review"McChesney . . . provokes an absolutely necessary discussion on the relationship between the control of information and our hopes for a genuine democracy."--Howard Zinn
"McChesney argues persuasively that whatever journalists' personal politics, the media's dominant ideology is pro-market and business class-biased and rests on the assumption that the news business works just fine. It takes a nonjournalist like McChesney to get the big picture."--Russ Baker,
Los Angeles Times"[He] has gone to the heart of the matter. The best stuff in McChesney's book is not just how it happened but what the results are in terms of quality."--Molly Ivins
