1st Edition
The Fair Reader An Extra! Review Of Press And Politics In The '90s
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why did major news outlets virtually ignore the only cost-effective plan for universal health care coverage—even though polls showed the plan had majority support? Why did leading journalists go out of their way to attack Bill Clinton’s rivals in the 1992 Democratic primary—while focusing unprecedented attention on Clinton’s personal life? Why do establishment media consider falling unemployment... Read more
Introductions -- The Bush Years -- Bending Over Bushwards -- Rallying ’Round the Flags: The Panama Invasion -- Creating the New Hitler: The Gulf War -- The ’92 Election -- The Primaries: Limiting Choice -- The Presidential Campaign: Unfair to Voters -- Race and Gender in the ’92 Election -- Clinton and the Media Agenda -- Promises to Break: The New Administration -- The Scandal Beat -- Trade: NAFT’s Manifest Destiny -- Health Care Reform: The Single-Payer Taboo -- War and “Peacekeeping”: Intervention in the Clinton Era -- In Search of Scapegoats -- Teen Mothers and Other Young Monsters -- The Crime Scam -- Economic Losers -- Beyond Clinton -- Contracting the American Spectrum: The ’94 Election -- Appendix
Biography
"Jim Naureckas is the editor of Extra!, the magazine of FAIR. A graduate of Libertyville High School and Stanford University, he got his first job in journalism covering the Iran-contra scandal for In These Times. He is the coauthor of The Way Things Aren’t: Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error (New Press). Janine Jackson is FAIR’s research director and the cohost of FAIR’s syndicated radio show CounterSpin. She writes a monthly column on labor and media for the Labor Resource Center at Queens College. Jackson graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and the New School for Social Research."
