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- catalog abstract ""Investigative reporter Trudy Lieberman shows clearly and convincingly how right-wing think tanks have moved their ideas to the front of the national agenda and engineered sweeping changes in public policy. She also reveals how a gullible, mainstream media has consistently taken, them at their word and spread their ideas." "In many ways, Lieberman argues, organizations like the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Manhattan Institute, and others have "beaten Ralph Nader at his own game," closely modeling their efforts on the successes of the consumer, environmental, and public-interest movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Through four well-documented case studies of right-wing policy strategies of recent years - to dampen public support for the AARP and the Social Security program, to gut the Food and Drug Administration's regulatory powers, to eliminate the Head Start program, and to fundamentally change the structure of Medicare - Lieberman shows how conservative foundations and think tanks have skillfully used the media to demonize the federal government and to diminish public support for the social welfare system."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11631647.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Investigative reporter Trudy Lieberman shows clearly and convincingly how right-wing think tanks have moved their ideas to the front of the national agenda and engineered sweeping changes in public policy. She also reveals how a gullible, mainstream media has consistently taken, them at their word and spread their ideas." "In many ways, Lieberman argues, organizations like the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Manhattan Institute, and others have "beaten Ralph Nader at his own game," closely modeling their efforts on the successes of the consumer, environmental, and public-interest movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Through four well-documented case studies of right-wing policy strategies of recent years - to dampen public support for the AARP and the Social Security program, to gut the Food and Drug Administration's regulatory powers, to eliminate the Head Start program, and to fundamentally change the structure of Medicare - Lieberman shows how conservative foundations and think tanks have skillfully used the media to demonize the federal government and to diminish public support for the social welfare system."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The right wing meets the press -- Wounding the enemy: the attack on AARP -- Removing an obstacle: "modernizing" the FDA -- Masking ideology as research: bringing down Head Start -- Advancing a cause: remaking Medicare -- Conclusion: the right wing's success.".
- catalog extent "ix, 208 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1565845773 (hc)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "070.4/4932052 21".
- catalog subject "Conservatism in the press United States.".
- catalog subject "PN4888.C598 L54 2000".
- catalog subject "Research institutes United States.".
- catalog subject "Spin doctors United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The right wing meets the press -- Wounding the enemy: the attack on AARP -- Removing an obstacle: "modernizing" the FDA -- Masking ideology as research: bringing down Head Start -- Advancing a cause: remaking Medicare -- Conclusion: the right wing's success.".
- catalog title "Slanting the story : the forces that shape the news / by Trudy Lieberman.".
- catalog type "text".