The best democracy money can buy
Subtitle: an investigative reporter exposes the truth about corporate cons, globalization, and high-finance fraudsters
Publisher: Plume
Published: September 2003
Place of publication: New York
Format: Electronic edition
Number of pages: 383
First sentence: Who Gives a Shit?
An Introduction to the New American Edition
You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America.
You could call this book What You Didn’t Read in the New York Times and What You Can’t See on CBS. For example:
Five months before the November 2000 election, Governor Jeb Bush of Florida moved to purge 57,700 people from the voter rolls, supposedly criminals not allowed to vote. Most were innocent of crimes, but the majority were guilty of being Black...