Tragedy and Farce - Tapa dura

The co-authors of Our Media, Not Theirs analyze recent election coverage and its role in compromising democracy, contending that a lack of popular information determined the outcome of the 2004 election, and exploring journalism trends and resource problems that the authors believe indicate the political right's inappropriate influence on news cycles. 25,000 first printing.

John Nichols is The Nation’s Washington correspondent, an editor at theCapital Times, and is co-founder of the national media reform organization Free Press. He is the author ofThe Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney and Jews for Buchanan. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C.

Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of some two dozen books on media and political economy, includingDigital Disconnect, Communication Revolution, and the award-winningRich Media, Poor Democracy; a co-author, with John Nichols, of Tragedy and Farce; and a co-editor, with Ben Scott, ofOur Unfree Press, and, with Victor Pickard, of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights (all published by The New Press). McChesney and Nichols are also the co-authors of the award-winningDollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America. McChesney’s work has been translated into thirty-one languages. He lives in Champaign, Illinois, and Madison, Wisconsin.