Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy

By John Nichols and Robert McChesney

Cartoons by
Tom Tomorrow

Foreword by
Tim Robbins

"John Nichols and Bob McChesney are the Paul Revere and Thomas Paine of our time. We ignore them at democracy's peril."
Bill Moyers

"An appeal to reason in a dark time."
Thomas Frank


Hardback book, 212 pgs., priced at $23.95

Dear Carmelo:

We have been sending you updates on our work and media reform activism for some time now. We've had important wins, but we're still facing grave threats.

The Bush administration is trying (again) to let Big Media get even bigger. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting just installed another partisan ideologue as chairwoman. Every day, industry lobbyists and corrupt politicians push legislation that pads the corporate bottom line but neglects the public interest.

Free Press is in the trenches and making a difference. But your support is crucial for us to continue to fight for better media. Simply put, we can't do it without you.

Become a Free Press Action Fund member today and we'll send you Robert McChesney and John Nichols' new book, Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy, five weeks before it's available in stores.

We have a limited quantity of books. The first 2,000 new members (at $50 or more) will receive Tragedy & Farce. If you become a member at $200, John and Bob will each inscribe your copy of the book.

Your membership will support tougher journalism, better public broadcasting, affordable Internet access, and more diverse voices in the media. Free Press Action Fund members were instrumental in blocking the FCC from scrapping important media ownership rules; stopping Sinclair Broadcasting from using the airwaves to push Bush propaganda; exposing the Bush administration for secretly paying journalists to promote its policies; keeping the Internet open to the public; and protecting public broadcasting from being gutted or turning into another Fox News.

Please support the Free Press Action Fund and help us build a media system that informs and enlightens our democracy.

Sincerely,

Josh Silver
Executive Director
Free Press
www.freepress.net

P.S. Tragedy & Farce's title is taken from a quote by James Madison: "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both."

P.P.S. Because we lobby Congress and the White House for media policies in the public interest, contributions to the Free Press Action Fund are not tax deductible as charitable contributions or as business expenses under IRC§162(e).