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The Kingmakers: How the Media Threatens Our Security and Our Democracy
Phoenix Books
June 2008
On Sale: June 17, 2008
204 pages
ISBN: 159777586X
EAN: 9781597775861
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
WHO PUT THE MEDIA IN CHARGE? Why does the media always blow the big stories? From 9/11 to
Iraq's WMDs, from Iran's nuclear program to the inevitable
Hillary Clinton the divide between reality and the so-called
news has never been more dramatic or dangerous. In The Kingmakers Senator Mike Gravel and Dr. David
Eisenbach argue that the media's failure to present the
public with an accurate view of the world poses a greater
threat to American lives than terrorism. They also show how
the greatest threat to our democracy is not money. It's the
media. Long before the majority of voters pay attention to
presidential elections, the media Kingmakers filter the
presidential field and anoint the leading candidates. Gravel and Eisenbach propose a powerful antidote to the
Kingmakers' poisonous influence on American politics
participatory journalism. Blogs, chat rooms, virtual worlds
and Internet contributions have empowered ordinary citizens
to change the course of American history and inaugurate a
new wave of democratization that America hasn't seen since
the Jacksonian era.
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