Authors: Douglas Kellner
ISBN-13: 9780742521025, ISBN-10: 0742521028
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: October 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
The battle for the White House following the election of November 7, 2000, was one of the major media spectacles in American history. From the uncertainty of election night to Al Gore's concession to George W. Bush's acceptance of the mantle of president-elect, Douglas Kellner demonstrates why the media was culpable in the theft of the presidency, ultimately bringing to power one of the most right wing administrations in American history. By applying critical social theory, cultural studies, and media criticism to buttress his arguments, Kellner concludes that Election 2000 reveals a crisis in contemporary American democracy. A final chapter critically dissects the first 100 days of the Bush presidency, which is emerging as one of the most reactionary in history.
Douglas Kellner's "Grand Theft 2000" is a stunning expose of the failure of the news media to report on the biggest and most important story in decades: the theft of the 2000 presidential election. Kellner artfully dissects the big lie propaganda of the Republicans and their media pundits, and lays bare before us the ugly realities of the hardright Bush presidency. This book combines the skills and experience of a great scholar with the street smarts of a first rate journalist..
Introduction | ||
1 | Media Spectacle and Election 2000 | 1 |
2 | The Longest Night | 21 |
3 | Indecision 2000 | 31 |
4 | Out of Control | 51 |
5 | Legal Wrangling and Political Spectacle | 65 |
6 | Democracy at Stake | 81 |
7 | Day of Infamy | 99 |
8 | The Media and the Crisis of Democracy | 117 |
9 | Bushspeak, Postmodern Sophistry, and Republican Stalinism | 135 |
10 | The Battle for Democracy | 151 |
11 | Aftermath | 185 |
References | 221 | |
Index | 225 |