MEDIA MADNESS - THE CORRUPTION OF OUR POLITICAL CULTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Although there is widespread acknowledgment that the mainstream media is in crisis - a crisis underscored as much by declining authority as declining circulation and viewership - no one has explained the intellectual and moral causes of this crisis. This work provides a fast-paced anatomy of the mainstream media self-generated demise. James Bowman has written for the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Criterion and other publications. He was the American editor of the Times Literary Supplement and is currently a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Institute. Features Summary Presents an anatomy of the mainstream media self-generated demise. This book looks behind the headlines to examine media's governing myths. It shows how the media's embrace of a spurious notion of objectivity... Author James Bowman Publisher Encounter Books,USA Release date 20080201 Pages 133 ISBN 1-59403-212-2 ISBN 13 978-1-59403-212-7