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Author Cohen, Elliot D.

Title The last days of democracy : how big media and power-hungry government are turning America into a dictatorship / Elliot D. Cohen & Bruce W. Fraser
Published Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007

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Description 333 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction / Peter Phillips -- The new American dictatorship -- The fox is guarding the henhouse -- Look who's not looking out for you -- The media matrix -- Wasting away in mediaville -- Blaming the Liberals -- Shock and awe -- Project for the New American Net -- Pax Americana -- Democracy in a black box -- What now, compatriots? -- Appendix: Selected media -- Selected bibliography
Summary 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 have become administration pawns in a well-organized effort to hijack America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-320) and index
Subject Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
Democracy -- United States.
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001002071
Author Fraser, Bruce W.
LC no. 2007001609
ISBN 9781591025047 alkaline paper
1591025044 alkaline paper