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<p>Many on the left blame the mainstream corporate media for the Iraq War and for 2004 election of George W. Bush. Nichols (Washington correspondent for The Nation) and McChesney (U. of Illinois) certainly wouldn't disagree, as evidenced by their detailing of the media's many imbalances and distortions in both of those cases, but they see these problems as part of a larger structural issue concerning the ownership and organizational realities of the current American journalistic scene. They describe the rise of the already problematic professional journalism and describe its further degradation under the tutelage of corporate power. They review the current landscape of media reform activism and offer public policy recommendations on how to change media structures so that the United States may someday avoid the warning of James Madison that A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Annotation &copy;2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR</p> <h3>Library Journal</h3> <p>This bleak assessment of the state of the media offers a harsh indictment of the Bush administration's control of information

Author

John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney; with illustrations by Tom Tomorrow

Publisher

New Press ; Signature Book Services [distributor

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781595580160

Subjects

Sociology, Literary Fiction, Science