Democracy Under Attack: How the Media Distort Policy and Politics

by Malcolm Dean

Book Overview

The ongoing News International phonehacking scandal has made abundantly clear that the media's influence over politics is both immense and largely hidden from public scrutiny. As the scandal grows, a question arises: even when they stay on the right side of the law, to what extent do the media influence the political process? In Democracy under Attack, one of the media's own--Malcolm Dean, the Guardian's long-standing chief monitor of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847428495
• ISBN13: 9781847428493
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"