Media Power - Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World? (Paperback)

WHY WE'RE STUFFED WITH INFORMATION BUT STARVED FOR UNDERSTANDING Three decades ago, "Media Power" predicted the coming of our 24/7 news culture and how it would make us suffer from 'deprivation by surfeit." "Selected by the Book of the Month Club And the Fortune Book Club" Robert Stein, an award-winning editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former chairman of the "American Society of Magazine Editors." 'His inquiry leads ultimately to moral concerns and. he asks the right questions in abundance." -"The New York Times Book Review" 'Keen insights.a humanitarian critic." -"Public Opinion Quarterly" 'You'll like it. It's salty." -Arnold Gingrich, Founding Editor, "Esquire" 'If freedom of the press ever disappears in America it will not be with a bang but a whimper. Well said." -"Columbia Journalism Review"