Breaking the News: How the Media Undermines American Democracy

Fallows, James

ISBN 10: 067944209X / ISBN 13: 9780679442097

Published by Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1996

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Breaking the News: How the Media Undermines ...

Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis:

At last a persuasive explanation of what's gone wrong with the American media--and what can be done about it. Fallows details the ways in which the current style of news coverage engenders a sense of futility in the American public about our ability to influence our society. He reveals how the reigning practices evolved and whose interests are served. National ads/media.

Review:

A lot of big-shot journalists didn't like this book, a systematic jeremiad about the current sad state of American political journalism. For instance, both the New York Times op-ed page and the New Yorker took pains to excoriate the book and its author--pretty good hints that Fallows is onto something. His point is that greed and intellectual sloth have fostered a political media elite that increasingly focuses on spin and ignores substance at the very time when solving the country's real problems requires all possible nuance.