Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?
- ISBN-10
- 059535825X
- ISBN-13
- 9780595358250
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 265
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- iUniverse
- Author
- Robert Stein
Description
WHY WE'RE STUFFED WITH INFORMATION BUT STARVED FOR UNDERSTANDINGThree decades ago, Media Power predicted the coming of our 24/7 news culture and how it would make us suffer from "deprivation by surfeit". Selected by the Book of the Month Club And the Fortune Book ClubRobert Stein, an award-winning editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors."His inquiry leads ultimately to moral concerns and he asks the right questions in abundance." -The New York Times Book Review "Keen insights a humanitarian critic." -Public Opinion Quarterly "You'll like it. It's salty." -Arnold Gingrich, Founding Editor, Esquire "If freedom of the press ever disappears in America it will not be with a bang but a whimper. Well said." -Columbia Journalism Review
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