num_pages: 422
description: Argues that the media serves the needs of those in power rather than performing a watchdog role, and looks at specific cases and issues
language: English
title: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
titlecomplete: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
characters: Joseph Lelyveld, Paul Berman, A.J.P. Taylor, Winston Churchill, Alexander Cockburn, Abraham Foxman, Wolf Blitzer, Andrew Sullivan, Walter Lippmann, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Marie Colvin, David Corn, Charles Glass, Marty Peretz, Bob Woodward, William Safire, Hendrik Hertzberg, Holly Sklar, Thomas Friedman, Norman Podhoretz, Elie Wiesel, Pol Pot, John Dewey, George Will, William Blum, Christopher Hitchens, Charles Krauthammer, Norman Finkelstein, Irving Howe, Edward Said, Yasser Arafat, Norman Stone, Stephen Kinzer, Joe Klein, Michael Walzer, Phyllis Schlafly, Ronald Reagan, Fred Barnes, Benny Morris, Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson, José Napoleón Duarte
genres: Political Science, Cultural Studies, Society, Politics, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Economics, Psychology, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 1452
publisher: South End Press