Media Warfare

Media Warfare is the concluding volume of Melvin Lasky''s monumental The Language of Journalism, a series that has been praised as a ""brilliant"" and ""original"" study in communications and contemporary language. Firmly rooted in the critical tradition of H. L. Mencken, George Orwell, and Karl Kraus, Lasky''s incisive analysis of journalistic usage and misusage gauges both the cultural and polit...