Description The role of news Media in a free society is to investigate, inform, and provide a crucial check on political power.
Mickey Huff is director of Project Censored and the president of t.
He is a board member for the Media Freedom Foundation, frequent contributor to Project Censored\'s annual Censored books series, a co-founder of the Global Critical Media Literacy Project, a program advisor for Sacred Heart University Media Literacy and Digital Culture Graduate Program, a steering committee member for the Union for Democratic Communications, and co-host of the Project Censored radio show.
He has been a guest commentator for news Media outlets such as The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox.
His academic work primarily focuses on news media, propaganda, critical Media literacy, and social justice pedagogies.
Nolan Higdon is professor of History and Communication at California State University, East Bay.
Power to the people "-- Peter Phillips , author of Giants: The Global Power Elite about the Author Dr.
Huff and Higdon correctly call for mass critical resistance through truth telling by free minds. ...
This is a vital wake-up call for how the public can protect itself against Manipulation and authoritarianism through education and public interest media."-- George Yancy , author of Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America and Professor of Philosophy at Emory University " United States of Distraction challenges our hegemon-media\'s ideological mind control and the occupation of human thought.
United States of Distraction shows, in chilling detail, America\'s major Media dysfunction--how the gutting of the fourth estate paved the road for fascism and What tools are critical to salvage our democracy."-- Abby Martin , The Empire Files "Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff provides us with a fearless and dangerous text that refuses the Post-Truth proliferation of fake news, disinformation, and Media that serve the interests of the few. wouldn\'t be able to hide its empire in plain sight were it not for the subservient \'free\' press.
McChesney , author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times "The U.
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Best of all, the analysis in United States of Distraction leads to concrete and do-able recommendations for how we can rectify this deplorable situation."-- Robert W.
The book is provocative and an entertaining read. Media and society."-- Ralph Nader "Higdon and Huff have produced the best short introduction to the nature of Trump-era journalism and how the \'Post-Truth\' Media world is inimical to a democratic society that I have seen.
Giroux , author of American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism "A timely and urgent demand re-asserting the central importance of civic pursuits--not commercialism--in U.
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Higdon and Huff have written a brilliant book of how we\'ve gotten to this point, and how to educate ourselves to fight back and win."-- Henry A. "Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon emphasize What we can do today," says Ralph Nader in the foreword, "to restore the power of facts, truth, and fair, inclusive journalism as tools for people to keep political and corporate power subordinate to the engaged citizenry and the common good." Praise for United States of Distraction "A war of distraction is underway, Media is the weapon, and our minds are the battlefield.
Written in the spirit of resistance and hope, United States of Distraction offers a clear, concise appraisal of our current situation, and presents readers with action items for how to improve it.
Journalism\'s essential role has been drastically compromised, and Donald Trump\'s repeated claims of "fake news" and framing of the Media as "an enemy of the people" have made a bad scenario worse.
As a result, people are increasingly immersed in an information system structured to reinforce their social biases and market to their buying preferences.
But does it do any of these things? It\'s no secret that the goal of corporate-owned Media is to increase the profits of the few, not to empower the many.
Description The role of news Media in a free society is to investigate, inform, and provide a crucial check on political power
