Alec Karakatsanis
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
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Copaganda is a powerful propaganda tool used by police, prosecutors, and news media to manipulate public perception of crime and justify authoritarian repression. Alec Karakatsanis' book exposes this phenomenon and offers a hopeful path forward towards a healed humanity and a media system invested in real public safety and equality.
Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 29 May 2025
Publisher: The New Press
Copaganda is a powerful tool used by police, prosecutors, and news media to manipulate public perception and promote authoritarianism. It creates fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society's response, leading to repression, inequality, and massive profits for the punishment bureaucracy. This book exposes the ways in which mass media manipulates our perception of what keeps us safe, cultivates fear of poor people, strangers, immigrants, unhoused people, and people of color, and leads to authoritarian repression. It shows how modern news coverage fuels insecurity and distracts us from policies that would truly improve lives and make us safer, such as reducing inequality, expanding housing, and investing in healthcare, early childhood education, and climate-friendly city planning. The book also highlights hidden examples of copaganda, such as when local TV stations obsessively report on shoplifting but ignore wage theft, tax evasion, and environmental pollution, when podcasts talk about a "shortage" of prison guards rather than too many people in prison, and when newspapers quote "experts" calling for more money for police and prisons despite scientific evidence to the contrary. Alec Karakatsanis, a recognized expert on law and justice, combines sharp legal expertise, trenchant political analysis, and humorous storytelling to transform the way we consume information. The result is a hopeful path forward towards a healed humanity and a media system invested in real public safety.
Weight: 810g
Dimension: 162 x 238 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781620978535
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