An insight into the “new” conservative politics that emerged with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon after liberal successes in the 1960s sheds light on why our media fails to provide the kind of investigative revelations about government and society that it used to. Although media is not the focus of Rick Perstein’s new book,Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, we learn how the tapestry of conservative strategy has been woven to impact media sources and, by extension, media content.
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