The Media We Deserve: Underachievement in the Fourth Estate. by Salter, David - 2007

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2007. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear, cover photo differs from stock photo. 304 pp. This book is a collection of critical essays by Salter on different aspects of the local media landscape. About the major players of the Australian media, their roles and influence on Australian lives, and the issues of journalistic practice that shape their content. Australia is fortunate to have media that are generally competent and occasionally very good indeed. But the print and broadcast material that we consume every day can also be perverse, shallow, illogical, infuriatingly opportunistic, crassly commercial, insufferably pretentious and rarely witty.