Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?

By Robert Stein

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 059535825X
• ISBN13: 9780595358250
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"