NEW INSIDER BOOK ON THE MEDIA OF PO

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Why do so many of the issues we care about get such short shrift in the
mainstream media?

MASS MEDIA: INSIGHT & ACTION

Seven Stories Press announces the publication of

Danny Schechter's
THE MORE YOU WATCH,
THE LESS YOU KNOW
News Wars/(sub)Merged Hopes/Media Adventures

Forwords by Jackson Browne and Robert W. McChesney

Alarmed by the dumbing-down and tabloidization of news?
Dismayed by the increasing domination of
what we see, hear and believe
by the slightest handful of powerful moguls?

Danny Schechter explains how things came to
be this way, and what we can do about it.

Travel with the 30-year veteran investigative
reporter on a no-holds-barred journey into the
newsrooms and board rooms where news
is selected, shaped and transmitted.

An award-winning veteran of CNN and ABC News,
Danny Schechter is today Executive Producer
at Globalvision and an independent film maker.
He's travelled the world, reporting from
more than 40 countries. His projects have involved
the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Abbie Hoffman
among others. Boston area readers may remember
him, also, as WBCN-FM's "News Dissector" in
the 1970s.

Schechter draws entertainingly on his
lively career as a working journalist
to develop provocative insights into

 o shrinking human rights coverage,
 o racism in the media
 o inattention to labor and class issues

and other trends in contemporary news coverage.

Schechter's been there, he understands how
monopoly media works, and he offers a strategy
for transforming it.

Noam Chomsky recommends this book. So does
Publishers' Weekly, which called it "Informative
and sometimes hilarious....This is a
sophisticated irreverent look at television
that will make readers wince--and laugh."

For a preview, go to

   http://visitweb.com/moreuwatch

To order: Search Barnes & Noble online at

   http://barnesandnoble.com/

or call 1-800-596-7437.
The book lists for $26.95.  480 pages. 16 pages of photos.

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