Debunking Glenn Beck - How to Save America from Media Pundits and Propagandists (Hardcover)

Taking the example of Glenn Beck as a media pundit and propagandist, this timely and provocative book shows how mainstream media fails in its duty-and explains what the American people can do about it. Debunking Glenn Beck: How to Save America from Media Pundits and Propagandists was written in response to Beck's Arguing with Idiots. Its most immediate concern is with exploring the agenda behind Beck's arguments and exposing the flaws in his reasoning. But this book's real mission is something much broader. Using Beck as an example, author Karl Rogers also shows why media reform is so vital to the future of democracy. To make that case, Dr. Rogers offers a detailed discussion of the ideas and ideology at work in Beck's arguments, revealing how the well-known conservative pundit has distorted and twisted facts to misrepresent American history, the meaning of progressivism, and even the U.S. Constitution. The book examines topics ranging from the Second Amendment to health care, education, housing, the Supreme Court, unions, democracy, and government. It concludes by explaining how Americans can revitalize the Constitution as a living document and, by doing so, revitalize public debate and democracy itself. A foreword by Harvey Sarles, professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota An index

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Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	October 2011
Authors:	Karl Alan Rogers
Dimensions:	238 x 166 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	225
ISBN-13:	978-1-4408-0029-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	1-4408-0029-4
Barcode:	9781440800290

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