Media

From the kid who brought you Fargo Rock City--the first book in history to garner the praise of Stephen King, David Byrne, Donna Gaines, Sebastian Bach, Jonathan Lethem, and Rivers Cuomo--comes Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs--the first book in history to examine breakfast cereal, reality television, tribute bands, Internet porn, serial killers, and the Dixie Chicks. Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman--with an exhaustive kno... more info>>

She reduced Sally Jesse Rafael to tears. Charlie Rose was red in the face after her comments. Bill Clinton called her "hostile, combative, and even disrespectful." Newt Gingrich said to her "You're the kind of reporter I warned my mother about." Meet Amy Goodman, award-winning journalist and host of a daily hour-long talk show that is a beacon for passionate, critical and hard-hitting news that cow-tows to no one. On subjects ranging from the deceptions of the Bush Administration to media monopo... more info>>

Bill Hillsman is simply, in the words of Slate, "the world's greatest political adman." With his groundbreaking consulting work on Paul Wellstone's senatorial, Jesse Ventura's gubernatorial, and Ralph Nader's presidential campaigns, he was the first to publicly challenge the conventional strategies of political campaigns, the inefficiency of campaign spending, the desultory, banal, and insulting political ads. As Hillsman says, "I don't believe you can annoy someone into voting for your candidat... more info>>

Alexandra Pelosi, creator of the Emmy award-winning film Journeys with George and of Diary of a Political Tourist, makes her literary debut with an intimate look at the frenzied and grueling underbelly of presidential campaigning and the puppet role of the media. Pelosi went along on the campaign trail in order to, as she puts it, "document the absurd hazing rituals that our presidential candidates have to go through." With this savvy, well-connected, and fearless guide, it's a rollicking, break... more info>>

It's hard enough to decide what to rent. How do you begin to decide which DVDs you want to buy? Which are worth having in your collection? After you buy 5 or 6 of your all-time favorite films, what makes a film a renter and what makes it a keeper? Veteran film writer and critic Steven Scheuer, along with his wife, Alida Brill-Scheuer are the weekly columnists for Copley News Service's syndicated "DVD Select" column, which reviews just-released movies on DVD that include reviews of their suppleme... more info>>

Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it, by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation. In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and of the American experience. From his parents' life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into his early journalism career in the Fifties and the tumultuous Sixties, up to the present, this personal story is a reflection on Americ... more info>>

The global media market of the '90s is dominated by fewer than ten media conglomerates. The tremendous growth of the so-called information superhighway has opened countless new channels for media, but only a very few opportunities for control of those channels. The global media market is dominated by only a handful of major players holding more and more of the cards. Robert McChesney traces the emergence of this global media monopoly, describes what the main players are up to, and details how th... more info>>

Joe Conason, whose examination of the witchhunt of Bill Clinton was a major national bestseller, takes on the most common fallacies propounded by the right and exposes them as the smear tactics they really are. Some "lies of the right" that Conason deftly debunks include: liberals control the media; democrats are spendthrifts who bust budgets and stifle economic growth; conservatives are all about family values and virtues while liberals promote immorality and vice; George Bush is a compassionat... more info>>