Debunking Glenn Beck: How to Save America from Media Pundits and Propagandists by Karl Alan Rogers Ph.D.
Debunking Glenn Beck: How to Save America from Media Pundits and Propagandists by Karl Alan Rogers Ph.D.
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Author(s): Karl Alan Rogers Ph.D.
Pub: Holtzbrinck
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ISBN: 9781440800290 - New
233mm x 155mm x 14mm
Publication: 20 October 2011Pages: 225
Taking the example of Glenn Beck as a media pundit and propagandist, this timely and provocative book shows how mainstream media fails in its dutyGÇòand explains what the American people can do about it.
Debunking Glenn Beck: How to Save America from Media Pundits and Propagandists was written in response to Becks Arguing with Idiots. Its most immediate concern is with exploring the agenda behind Becks arguments and exposing the flaws in his reasoning. But this books real mission is something much broader. Using Beck as an example, author Karl Rogers also shows why media reform is so vital to the future of democracy.
To make that case, Dr. Rogers offers a detailed discussion of the ideas and ideology at work in Becks arguments, revealing how the well-known conservative pundit has distorted and twisted facts to misrepresent American history, the meaning of progressivism, and even the U.S. Constitution. The book examines topics ranging from the Second Amendment to health care, education, housing, the Supreme Court, unions, democracy, and government. It concludes by explaining how Americans can revitalize the Constitution as a living document and, by doing so, revitalize public debate and democracy itself.