Dollarocracy : how the money-and-media election complex is destroying America / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nichols, John, 1959-
Other Authors: McChesney, Robert Waterman, 1952-
Language:English
Published: New York : Nation Books, [2013]
Subjects:
Campaign funds > United States.
Elections > United States.
Mass media > United States > Forecasting.
Democracy > United States.
Physical Description:xviii, 339 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: privilege resurgent
  • This is not what democracy looks like
  • The $10 billion election: what it looks like when billionaires start spending
  • The architects of dollarocracy: Lewis Powell, John Roberts, and the robber baron court
  • The bull market: political advertising
  • Media corporations: where the bucks stop
  • The rise and fall of professional journalism
  • Journalism exits, stage right
  • Digital politics: there is no such thing as "too much information"
  • The right to vote: beginning the new age of reform.