Jeffrey Scheuer is the author of The Big Picture: Why Democracies Need Journalistic Excellence (Routledge 2007), and The Sound Bite Society: How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999; Routledge paperback, 2001), which was named a Choice "Outstanding Academic Title." He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dissent, and many other newspapers and journals, and is series editor on Democracy and the News for Praeger Publishers. His Web site is www.jscheuer.com.