Dollarocracy

How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Av Robert W McChesney, Bernie Sanders, John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney, Robert W. McChesney

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Foreword by Senator Bernie SandersFresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic Robert W. McChesney explain how US elections are becoming controlled, predictable enterprises that are managed by a new class of consultants who wield millions of dollars and define our politics as never before. As the money gets bigger,especially after the Citizens United ruling,and journalism, a core check and balance on the government, declines, American citizens are in danger of becoming less informed and more open to manipulation. With ground-breaking behind-the-scenes reporting and staggering new research on the money power," Dollarocracy shows that this new power does not just endanger electoral politics it is a challenge to the DNA of American democracy itself.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-09-02
Mått140 x 210 x undefined mm
Vikt1 337 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagAvalon Publishing Group
ISBN9781568589534

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John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, has written The Nation's Online Beat since 1999 is their Washington DC correspondent contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times, he is also the associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and dozens of other newspapers and he is a frequent guest on radio and television programs as a commentator on politics and media issues. Nichols lives in Madison, WI and Washington DC.Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author or editor of sixteen books. He is the President and co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and Champaign, Illinois.

Foreword, Senator Bernie Sanders Preface Introduction: Privilege Resurgent 1. This is Not What Democracy Looks Like 2. The $10 Billion Election: What It Looks Like When Billionaires Start Spending 3. The Architects of Dollarocracy: Lewis Powell, John Roberts, and the Robber Baron Court 4. The Bull Market: Political Advertising 5. Media Corporations: Where the Bucks Stop 6. The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism 7. Journalism Exits, Stage Right 8. Digital Politics: There Is No Such Thing as "Too Much Information" 9. The Right to Vote: Beginning the New Age of Reform