{"product_id":"the-new-blue-media-9781595587381","title":"The New Blue Media","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIs a new progressive era in American life in the offing? Only time will tell, but journalist Theodore Hamm’s sharp, acerbic book suggests that a new progressive media has already arrived. Satirical, hard-charging, and unapologetically progressive, this new media movement is both reinvigorating old forms like late-night TV and documentaries and inventing new forms like the blogosphere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a breezy, accessible style, \u003ci\u003eThe New Blue Media\u003c\/i\u003e traces the rise during the Bush years of new media stars: the news-saturated satire of \u003ci\u003eThe Onion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Show\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Colbert Report\u003c\/i\u003e; the polemical assaults of Michael Moore and Air America; and the instant-messaging politics of MoveOn, Daily Kos, and the netroots. With the exception of Air America, all of these new media outlets have found commercial success—marking, says Hamm, a new era in liberal politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoes this new media matter? In 2004, both Michael Moore and MoveOn became major players; more recently, the influence of the netroots sparked an upheaval within the Democratic Party, when Connecticut’s Ned Lamont almost defeated former vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman in his campaign for the Senate. Taken as a whole, the New Blue Media are shaping both the style—and in many cases the substance—of twenty-first-century progressive politics.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Theodore Hamm","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48283742667003,"sku":"9781595587381","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_61500572-69e1-4b20-a3f9-8a126f580b48.jpg?v=1771382010","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-new-blue-media-9781595587381","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}