Dumbing Down: Culture, Politics and the Mass Media

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Ivo Mosley
Imprint Academic, 2000 - 328 pàgines

This text is a compilation of essays on changes in culture and the media and the dangers of their manipulation.

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Tam Dalyell On the Decline of Intelligent Government
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Ivo Mosley Dumbing Down Democracy
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Michael Oakeshott The Masses
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Sobre l'autor (2000)

Ivo Mosley writes on politics and culture for many journals and newspapers, both mainstream and academic. Previous books (which include Dumbing Down and Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order, both for Imprint Academic) have been acclaimed 'book of the year' ( Spectator ), 'entirely fascinating' ( The Week ), 'a book for our time' ( Telegraph ); 'At last! A guide to the moronic inferno!' ( PN Review ) and 'If there is any hope at all, it lies in the existence of books like this!' ( Daily Mail ).

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TítolDumbing Down: Culture, Politics and the Mass Media
EditorIvo Mosley
EditorImprint Academic, 2000
Original deUniversitat de Califòrnia
Digitalitzat el7 Febr. 2008
ISBN0907845657, 9780907845652
Nre. de pàgines328 pàgines
  
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