The current climate of American journalism is fraught with
incestuous relations between government and a handful of Fortune
500 corporations that own and operate news organizations. From News
Corporation's Fox News, General Electric's NBC, Viacom's CBS,
Disney's ABC, and Time Warner's CNN to Clear Channel's massive
radio empire, what the mainstream media present as "news" has
become largely a "paid political announcement" born of favor
trading, conflict of interest, and self-serving, bottom-line
corporate logic. As a result of such accommodationism, American
viewers receive a homogenized, censored version of reality and the
watchdog of American democracy, the press, has become a docile
instrument of governmental authority and big money. In this timely
collection of essays by more than a dozen of the nation's top media
scholars, critics, and journalists, including a preface by Arthur
Kent, the present media crisis is carefully exposed. From coverage
of the war in Iraq to national security, this book details the
manner in which journalists have walked in lockstep to the
self-serving quid pro quo of government and corporate media giants.
Among the many topics broached are methods of media manipulation
and propagandizing; the claim that the media is liberal; media
ownership, rules, and deregulation; alternative media; the threat
to free access to information on the Internet; the effects of media
consolidation on actors, producers, agents, managers, and lawyers
in the film industry; and the standardization of music and
reduction of localism in radio. The contributors include media
critic Danny Schechter, political analyst Michael Parenti, Mother
Jones publisher Jay Harris, the ACLU's Barry Steinhardt and Jay
Stanley, former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, and many other
distinguished commentators. Not only does this book expose the
current crisis, it proposes solutions to it, pinpointing legal and
constitutional challenges, reviewing recent FCC rulings and
congressional legislation, and proposing structural changes in the
ways diverse media currently operate. For any American who prizes
democracy, this book is a clear wake-up call to look more carefully
behind the superficial slogans of a free America and the stars and
stripes strategically displayed on the TV monitor.
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