How American media are failing our democracy, by the authors Bill Moyers calls "the Paul Revere and Tom Paine of our time." ""As this book makes clear, the problem is deeper than the administration or the right-wing echo chamber... the very structure of our conglomerated media system conspires against real journalism and, hence, against truth.""--Tim Robbins, from the Foreword Thomas Frank called "Tragedy and Farce" "an appeal to reason in a dark time." Including the sharpest analysis of 2004 election coverage yet and the first detailed look at the burgeoning media reform movement, this book is both an expose and a call to action. In it John Nichols and Robert McChesney--two of the country's leading media analysts--argue that during the 2004 election and throughout the Iraq war and occupation, Americans have been starved of democracy's oxygen: accurate information. More than anything John Kerry, George