Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780595358250)

WHY WE'RE STUFFED WITH INFORMATION BUT STARVED FOR UNDERSTANDING Three 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 Club Robert 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

Author: Robert Stein
ISBN-10: 059535825X
ISBN-13: 9780595358250
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2005
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d