Media Democracy: How the Media Colonize Politics

Highlights the fact that real power in the media is wielded by an iron triangle committed to the media's logic of up-to-the-minute reportage: media-savvy political elites, pollsters and media executives.

Shows how media democracy has replaced deliberation – once the lifeblood of democratic public life – with pseudo-plebiscites.

Argues that deliberative procedures could regain some influence through local civic participation and a thorough reform of the communicative culture of the mass media.