The Republican Noise Machine
Subtitle: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Crown
Published: May 18, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781400048755
Subjects: Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Conservatism; U.S. Practical Politics; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-; Politics - Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political aspects; Political Process - Political Parties; Government - U.S. Government; Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; Political Science / Political Parties; Journalism; United States; Mass media; Objectivity
First sentence: WHEN JOURNALIST EDITH EFRON died at age seventy-nine in April 2001, Virginia Postrel, the editor of the libertarian magazine Reason, for which Efron had been a longtime contributor, published a lengthy remembrance.
Description: "In The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock documents perhaps the most important but least understood political development of the last thirty years: how the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United States." "Brock, a former right-wing insider and the author of the New York Times' Blinded by the Right, uses his understanding of the strategies, tactics, financing, and personalities of the American right wing to demonstrate how the once-fringe phenomenon of right-wing media has all but subsumed the regular media conversation, shaped the national consciousness, and turned American politics sharply to the right." "From the disputed 2000 presidential election to the war with Iraq to the political battles of 2004, Brock's penetrating analysis of right-wing media theories and methodology reveals that the Republican Right views the media as an extension of a broader struggle for political power. By tracing the political impact of right-wing media, Brock shows how disproportionate conservative influence in the media is integrally linked to the Republican Right's current domination of all three branches of government, to the propping up of the Bush administration, and to the inability of Democrats to voice their opposition to this political sea change or to compete on an even playing field."--Jacket.