hardcover
130 pages
ISBN: 1594032122
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“James Bowman’s characteristically sharp thesis goes way beyond traditional complaints about media bias. At a time when big movies flop, newspaper circulations decline, and network anchors go unwatched, the author argues that, while mass media may be on the way out, their worst pathologies have spread throughout society at large and made serious honorable public discourse all but impossible. From eco-rockers to moral equivalists to journalists’ debauching of their own currency (language) Bowman presents a trenchant and persuasive analysis of a world trying to run its affairs to a media aesthetic… Bowman’s book is an indispensable guide through the madness and, perhaps one day, back to sanity.”
Mark Steyn
author of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It
“James Bowman compellingly argues that the contemporary reign of “media madness” has been allowed to “grow and spread like some pest whose natural predators have been eliminated.” This is a scathing, provocative, brilliant, and useful book.”
Thomas B. Edsall
author of Chain Reaction and Building Red America
“The particular virtue of the book is that it stirs the pot, reminding readers about the wisdom of not taking anything delivered from the media at face value…Moreover, reading “Media Madness” during the current election season is a revelation.”
Carol Herman
The Washington Times
