Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone. Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown. In The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney, an academic, and John Nichols, a journalist, who together founded the nations leading media reform network, Free Press, investigate the crisis. They propose a bold strategy for saving journalism and saving democracy, one that looks back to how the Founding Fathers ensured free press protection with the First Amendment and provided subsidies to the burgeoning print press of the young nation.
- ISBN10 1568586051
- ISBN13 9781568586052
- Publish Date 1 January 2010
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 18 July 2012
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Avalon Publishing Group
- Imprint Nation Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English