Table of Contents

Preface     7
Introduction     11
Journalism     23
The Problem of Journalism     25
A Century of Radical Media Criticism in the United States     67
Upton Sinclair and the Contradictions of Capitalist Journalism     83
Telling the Truth at a Moment of Truth: U.S. News Media and the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq     97
How to Think About Journalism: Looking Backward, Going Forward     117
Critical Studies     155
The Battle for the U.S. Airwaves, 1928-1935     157
The Payne Fund and Radio Broadcasting, 1928-1935     181
Media Made Sport: A History of Sports Coverage in the United States     213
Public Broadcasting in the Age of Communication Revolution     233
The New Theology of the First Amendment: Class Privilege Over Democracy     249
The Commercial Tidal Wave     265
Noam Chomsky and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism     283
The New Economy: Myth and Reality     291
The Political Economy of International Communications     305
Politics and Media Reform     339
Off-Limits: An Inquiry into the Lack of Debate Over the Ownership, Structure, and Control of the Media in U.S. Political Life     341
The Internet and U.S. CommunicationPolicymaking in Historical and Critical Perspective     355
U.S. Left and Media Politics     383
Global Media and Its Discontents     393
Theses on Media Deregulation
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times     425
The Case for U.S. Public Broadcasting and Implications for Philanthropists     445
The Escalating War Against Corporate Media     461
The U.S. Media Reform Movement Going Forward     491
Notes     501
Index     569