Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media Audiobook

Quotes

• “Using straightforward reporting, a clear writing style and a healthy dose of facts-on-the-ground, Klinenberg…assembles a telling portrait of the sorry state of this nation’s newspapers, TV channels and radio stations.”

  — Rocky Mountain News

• “Eric Klinenberg has given us a chilling report on how the American news media, increasingly concentrated, have made a mockery of the commitment to operate ‘in the public interest, convenience, and necessity.’” 

  — Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst for NPR

• “Fighting for Air is a richly detailed, compelling, and timely investigation into the problem of the U.S. media and what people are doing to take it back…This book is a call to action to fight for a strong, vigorous, independent media.”

  — Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of “Democracy Now!”

• “[This] impassioned call to restore local journalism and its role in creating informed, engaged communities is sure to strike a chord with readers.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Drawing on interviews, independent observations, and Federal Communications Commission proceedings, Klinenberg convincingly argues that media consolidation is limiting choices and opinions in America.”

  — Library Journal

• “There is much irony and anger in this important exposé and Tom Weiner, in a deep, resonant voice, expresses those sentiments well.” 

  — Publishers Weekly (audio review)