I learned of this book from a February 4, 2010, interview with the authors on Democracy Now. Nichols is a correspondent for The Nation, and McChesney is a professor at U Illinois and host of NPR's "Media Matters" program on matters in, you guessed it, the media.

This book explores the nature and importance of journalism and its immanent demise in the US. They explore possible adaptations to our present situation that might slow or reverse the evisceration of a vital mechanism protecting what remains of our civil society.