Smoke and Mirrors

by John D. Leonard

Book Overview

In Smoke and Mirrors , John Leonard, one of the nation's leading media critics, offers a provocative challenge to conventional ideas about television. Instead of scapegoating television as the cause of crime in our streets, stupidity in our schools, and spectacle rather than substance in our government, Leonard sees something else inside the box: an echo chamber and a feedback loop, a medium neither wholly innocent of, nor entirely responsible for,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156584226X
• ISBN13: 9781565842267
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"