The More You Watch the Less You Know

News Wars/(sub)Merged Hopes/Media Adventures

• Author(s): Danny Schechter,
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Pages: 478
• ISBN_10: 1888363401
  ISBN_13: 9781888363401
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism , Literary Collections / General , Performing Arts / Television / General , Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism , Political Science / Censorship , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Media Studies ,

Description:... The More You Watch, The Less You Know is one journalist's testimony on the demise - and possible resurgence - of truth-telling in our time. Weaving autobiographical experiences with media analysis, Schechter names names and points his finger at key players in the megamedia corporations that rule the airwaves. He offers an insider's tale of how the media really works and why it doesn't work the way it should breaking what media historian Robert W. McChesney in his foreword calls "the implicit code of silence that compels journalists to look the other way ....".