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The Return of the Public - Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform (Hardcover, New)
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The Return of the Public - Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform (Hardcover, New)
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Our politicians have ever-decreasing legitimacy. Even as they amass
ever more riches our financiers are now morally and intellectually
bankrupt. In their different ways politicians and those who control
the private economy system claim to be acting in the public
interest. Yet we, the public, have little say in decision-making
and almost no power to change the terms of a series of increasingly
absurd debates about economic and foreign policy. How have we been
excluded from so many discussions about the public interest? Dan
Hind traces how, historically, political and intellectual elites
constructed deeply ambiguous ideas of the public, designed to serve
their own ends and preserve the status quo. After the Second World
War, as women, ethnic minorities, the young, and the working
majority became more assertive and self-confident, the propertied
and their allies in the state made fresh attempts to deny most of
us a public identity. The financial crisis, and the ability of
those who caused it to preside over policy-making in its aftermath,
have made it impossible to ignore what has long been obvious: the
institutions on which most of us rely for our knowledge of the
wider world have become radically and demonstrably unaccountable
and unsafe. For decades, the public has been told to leave
democracy to the experts. Now, Hind outlines a way forward for a
new participatory politics, one based on the wholesale reform of
the media. After the failure of the private, now is the time for
the return of the public.
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