Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times

An updated edition of the "penetrating study" examining how the current state of mass media puts our democracy at risk (Noam Chomsky).

What happens when a few conglomerates dominate all major aspects of mass media, from newspapers and magazines to radio and broadcast television? After all the hype about the democratizing power of the internet, is this new technology living up to its promise? Since the publication of this prescient work, which won Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize and the Ka...