The Fair Reader An Extra! Review Of Press And Politics In The '90s
Auteurs : Naureckas Jim, Jackson Janine
Why did major news outlets virtually ignore the only cost-effective plan for universal health care coverage?even though polls showed the plan had majority support? Why did leading journalists go out of their way to attack Bill Clinton?s rivals in the 1992 Democratic primary?while focusing unprecedented attention on Clinton?s personal life? Why do establishment media consider falling unemployment to be bad news? In the tradition of I.F. Stone and George Seldes, the contributors to The FAIR Reader probe the often mysterious connections between press and politics in the 1990s. The essays are filled with startling information about the critical issues of our time?from the Gulf War and the Clarence Thomas hearings to the debates over health care reform and NAFTA?documenting the deceptive, one-sided mainstream reporting that leaves the public in the dark. Particular attention is paid to the election of 1992 and the Clinton administration, showing how the media promoted, undercut, and finally shaped Clinton to fit a media agenda, the book demonstrates that systematic media bias poses a threat to the democratic process and the free flow of information to the U.S. citizenry. FAIR, founded in 1986, is the national media watch group dedicated to the principle that independent, aggressive, and critical media are essential to an informed democracy. In the nine years since FAIR was launched, it has gained national recognition for its well-documented studies of media bias, its challenge to powerful media figures like Rush Limbaugh, and its award-winning journal of media criticism and politics, Extra!. The FAIR Reader collects Extra!?s most incisive reporting on journalism and politics in the ?90s. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in decoding the media agenda behind the daily news.
"Jim Naureckas is the editor of Extra!, the magazine of FAIR. A graduate of Libertyville High School and Stanford University, he got his first job in journalism covering the Iran-contra scandal for In These Times. He is the coauthor of The Way Things Aren’t: Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error (New Press).
Janine Jackson is FAIR’s research director and the cohost of FAIR’s syndicated radio show CounterSpin. She writes a monthly column on labor and media for the Labor Resource Center at Queens College. Jackson graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and the New School for Social Research."
Date de parution : 05-2021
15.2x24.1 cm
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Ajouter au panierDate de parution : 09-2019
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Mots-clés :
Laser Guided Bombs; Clinton administration; Young Men; information flow; NBC Nightly News; media bias; Port Authority Bus Terminal; 1992 election; CIA Operative; ABC’s Nightline; ABC World News Tonight; Tv News; FAA; Welfare Reform; Tv Journalist; Tv Ad; Tv Executive; Tv News Viewing; USA Today; Single Payer Plan; Tv Picture; Federal Aviation Administration; Panama Invasion; Single Payer System; Horse Race Stories; Health Care Reform; Managed Competition; Legal Times; Lehrer NewsHour