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Title: Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Media & Culture (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 5.) by Robert Jensen ISBN: 0-8204-5651-9 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Delightful, Readable 'How to' of Radical Journalism
Comment: Robert Jensen's recent book Writing Dissent is terse, pleasantly readable, enlightening and practical. The book is a 'how to' of the kind radicals are awfully in need of. Spearheaded by intellectuals and academicians, the radicals lack works like Jensen's. Jensen shows that smart use of the mainstream media is not a proprietary enterprise of the chauvinistic Right. Radicals too can, believe it or not, use the same media to advance their cause of reason, fairness and justice.
The Right invests immense resources in preparing its warriors to exploit the media and blunt the academia through the likes of the Leadership Institute, the Pioneer Fund, the Heritage Foundation, Accuracy in Media, Accuracy in Academia, etc. Their focus is not critical thinking, profound scholarship or honest dialog, but simple exploitation of jargon, redundancy, spincraft and other tricks to win the battle. Mainstream journalism has been a major alibi in this process.
Jensen combines the rare insight of an ex-journalist, an activist and an academician to tell the inside story of mainstream journalism. What Chomsky and Herman tell us on a macroscopic scale in their propaganda model finds real world microscopic explanation in Jensen's work. Yet, the book is not big on theory, its primary focus remains actual dos and don'ts and how-tos of journalism. Several examples of journalistic pieces Jensen has written and gotten published add to the utility and power of the book.
The book is useful for anyone, though the reader is assumed to be a radical throughout. Whether you are a burgeoning activist looking for practical guidance on whether, how and where to write and publish, or an experienced intellectual looking for ways to write in simple, clear and comprehensible journalistic style, this is the book for you.
A pleasant aspect of the book is Jensen's candid style that is a reflection perhaps of his radical ideology. He forcefully claims that 'any one can write' and that his success as a journalist is not due to a special gift. Journalism is a craft, and anyone can learn it.
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Title: Citizens of the Empire : The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity by Robert Jensen ISBN: 0872864324 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People: A Tactical Manual for Pragmatic Progressives by John K. Wilson ISBN: 0814793630 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson ISBN: 0805070044 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: War Talk by Arundhati Roy ISBN: 0896087247 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0805074007 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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