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Found inside – Page 1In every chapter of this bestselling text, students will explore the latest developments and current events that are rapidly changing the media landscape. Then, with Trump's election at home, the global retreat from freedom spread from democracy's margins to its heart. Ill Winds' core argument is stark: the defense and advancement of democratic ideals relies on U.S. global leadership. In this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Found insideHere is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news. 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