The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-Hungry Government Are Turning America Into A Dictatorship

Elliot D. Cohen; Bruce W. Fraser

ISBN 10: 1591025044 / ISBN 13: 9781591025047

Edité par Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2007

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Second printing thus. Used trade paperback with light reading wear; the interior is clean and bright, and the binding is tight with no creases to the spine. Includes Select Bibliography and Index.

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• Titre: The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-Hungry Government Are Turning America Into A Dictatorship
• Éditeur: Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1591025044
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781591025047
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: First Thus
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

In this chilling account of an America in political and cultural decline, media critics Elliot D. Cohen and Bruce W. Fraser show how mainstream media corporations like CNN, Fox, and NBC (General Electric) together with giant telecoms like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T have become administration pawns in a well-organized effort to hijack America. Cohen and Fraser show in blunt terms how incredible power, control, and wealth have been amassed in the hands of an elite few while the rest of us have been systematically manipulated, deceived, and divested of our freedom. Calling attention to the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a carefully devised plan for international dominion launched by high officials in the Bush administration, this book tells the story of an America quietly being stripped of its democratic way of life on its way to becoming a full-blown authoritarian state.
The authors detail how mainstream media have failed us in covering issues crucial to the survival of American democracy — the Bush administration’s domestic spying program; the facts about the September 11 attacks; presidential election fraud; the events leading up to the Iraq war; and the selling out of Internet freedom, to name just some. They reveal how corporate media have systematically attempted to dumb down and distract us from reality with sex and violence; how government has used corporate media to "shock and awe" Americans into surrendering their constitutional rights in the name of the "War on Terrorism"; and how media personalities have been complicit in the mass deception.
The final chapter points out important ways in which Americans can counter the erosion of democracy by relying less on mainstream media and more on independent news sources, through grassroots activism, peaceful assembly, and exercising their free speech, and by using critical thinking to expose the dangers we face.

À propos de l?auteur

Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D. (Port St. Lucie, FL), is the director of the Institute of Critical Thinking, the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Applied Philosophy, ethics editor for Free Inquiry magazine, and the author or editor of many books in journalism, professional ethics, and philosophical counseling, including News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy, Journalistic Ethics (with Deni Elliot), Philosophical Issues in Journalism, and What Would Aristotle Do? Self-Control through the Power of Reason.
Bruce W. Fraser, Ph.D. (Vero Beach, FL), is founder and president of Americans for Moral Government, a political action committee devoted to the preservation and promotion of democratic values.