The Politics of Misinformation

by Murray Edelman

Book Overview

The Politics of Misinformation is an examination of how concentrations of social and economic power result in public languages of politics that are necessarily image-based, vague, and misleading in their denial of undemocratic tendencies. As a result, public discourses of democracy tend to be populistic, emotional, and likely to emphasize images of progress rather than structural inequalities in their formulations of public problems. In short, neither...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521805104
• ISBN13: 9780521805100
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"