On Monday, September 16th, there will be two events for the launch of Robert McChesney and John Nichols’ new book Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America. The first event will be hosted by the Institute for Public Knowledge and will be a discussion with the two authors at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (20 Cooper Square, 7th floor) from 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm. For more information and to RSVP to the event, please go to their website: ipk.nyu.edu/event-calendar/details/206-dollarocracy The second event will be hosted by FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), where Nichols and McChesney will be joined by Amy Goodman, the award-winning host of Democracy Now!, and Jeremy Scahill, independent investigative journalist and author of Dirty Wars. All four will speak about the press, the threat to independent journalism and the state of American democracy. This event will take place at Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South) from 6:30-8pm. Tickets can be bought on the FAIR website: fair.org/press-release/fair-nyc-event-dollarocracy-big-money-big-media-bad-news/ Please see below for a description of the Institute for Public Knowledge event. ---- Blending reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and their perspectives from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic Robert W. McChesney explain how US elections are becoming controlled, predictable enterprises that are managed by a new class of consultants who wield millions of dollars and define our politics as never before. As the money gets bigger—especially after the Citizens United ruling—and journalism, a core check and balance on the government, declines, American citizens are in danger of becoming less informed and more open to manipulation. With new research and reporting, Dollarocracy argues that the money-and-media election complex does not just endanger electoral politics; it poses a challenge to the DNA of American democracy itself. Robert McChesney is Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. Trained at the University of Washington (Ph.D, 1989), McChesney hosts the program Media Matters on WILL-AM every Sunday afternoon from 1-2pm central time. He has written seventeen books and his work has been translated into fifteen languages. John Nichols, a political blogger, has written The Beat since 1999. His posts have been circulated internationally, quoted in numerous books and mentioned in debates on the floor of Congress. Nichols writes about politics for The Nation magazine as its Washington correspondent. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and dozens of other newspapers. McChesney and Nichols are the founders of Free Press, the media reform network, and have authored numerous other books together including: Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, Destroy Democracy (New Press) and The Death and Life of American Journalism (Nation Books).
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