Race-Baiter

by Eric Deggans

Book Overview

Gone is the era of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, when news programs fought to gain the trust and respect of a wide spectrum of American viewers. Today, the fastest-growing news programs and media platforms are fighting hard for increasingly narrow segments of the public and playing on old prejudices and deep-rooted fears, coloring the conversation in the blogosphere and the cable news chatter to distract from the true issues at stake. Using...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230341829
• ISBN13: 9780230341821
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"