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Copaganda : How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News by Alec Karakatsanis (2025, Hardcover)

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Copaganda : How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News, Hardcover by Karakatsanis, Alec, ISBN 1620978539, ISBN-13 9781620978535, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A former public defender explores “copaganda,” a form of propaganda used by police and media to manipulate public perception of crime and punishment, emphasizing fear of marginalized communities while promoting increased government repression as the solution. 20,000 first printing.

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PublisherNew Press, T.H.E.

ISBN-101620978539

ISBN-139781620978535

eBay Product ID (ePID)14070922032

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Book TitleCopaganda : How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMedia & the Law, Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Propaganda

Publication Year2025

IllustratorYes

GenreLaw, Political Science, Social Science

AuthorAlec Karakatsanis

FormatHardcover

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Item Length9 in

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LCCN2024-050496

ReviewsPraise for Copaganda : "Karakatsanis provides a primer on how to read and assess news stories and opinion pieces." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "An instructive, often enraging look at how elite publications mounted a sustained defense of the status quo after the police murder of George Floyd touched off the largest political mass movement in U.S. history." --The New Republic "Karakatsanis's close readings of news articles from major outlets show that journalists habitually regurgitate pro-police narratives--many of which revolve around how more funding for law enforcement is needed to bring down crime rates--and omit the perspectives of non-police experts and studies showing that law enforcement has no correlation with crime rates. . . . Readers will be aghast." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Alec Karakatsanis exposes our criminal injustice system for what it is: a bureaucracy of punishment, propped up by a biased media machine that feeds mass incarceration. After Copaganda, you'll never read the news the same way again." --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow "Alec Karakatsanis is a gifted civil rights lawyer and a fearless guide to the urgent project of calling out the many failures of modern coverage of crime and justice. Only by really understanding those failures--why, for instance, news outlets tend to ignore ubiquitous crimes like wage theft but spill endless ink on certain street crimes--can we hope to heal our communities." --Sarah Stillman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and staff writer, The New Yorker "Karakatsanis cuts to the heart of the rancid politics of crime, and the ways in which journalists and academics reproduce inequality and immiseration by legitimating America's massive punishment bureaucracy. Copaganda is a masterful analysis, a call to action, and a blueprint for change." --Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing, Praise for Copaganda : "Alec Karakatsanis exposes our criminal injustice system for what it is: a bureaucracy of punishment, propped up by a biased media machine that feeds mass incarceration. After Copaganda, you'll never read the news the same way again." --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow "Alec Karakatsanis is a gifted civil rights lawyer and a fearless guide to the urgent project of calling out the many failures of modern coverage of crime and justice. Only by really understanding those failures--why, for instance, news outlets tend to ignore ubiquitous crimes like wage theft but spill endless ink on certain street crimes--can we hope to heal our communities." --Sarah Stillman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and staff writer, The New Yorker "Karakatsanis cuts to the heart of the rancid politics of crime, and the ways in which journalists and academics reproduce inequality and immiseration by legitimating America's massive punishment bureaucracy. Copaganda is a masterful analysis, a call to action, and a blueprint for change." --Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing, Praise for Copaganda : "Karakatsanis's close readings of news articles from major outlets show that journalists habitually regurgitate pro-police narratives--many of which revolve around how more funding for law enforcement is needed to bring down crime rates--and omit the perspectives of non-police experts and studies showing that law enforcement has no correlation with crime rates. . . . Readers will be aghast." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Alec Karakatsanis exposes our criminal injustice system for what it is: a bureaucracy of punishment, propped up by a biased media machine that feeds mass incarceration. After Copaganda, you'll never read the news the same way again." --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow "Alec Karakatsanis is a gifted civil rights lawyer and a fearless guide to the urgent project of calling out the many failures of modern coverage of crime and justice. Only by really understanding those failures--why, for instance, news outlets tend to ignore ubiquitous crimes like wage theft but spill endless ink on certain street crimes--can we hope to heal our communities." --Sarah Stillman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and staff writer, The New Yorker "Karakatsanis cuts to the heart of the rancid politics of crime, and the ways in which journalists and academics reproduce inequality and immiseration by legitimating America's massive punishment bureaucracy. Copaganda is a masterful analysis, a call to action, and a blueprint for change." --Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing, Praise for Copaganda : "An instructive, often enraging look at how elite publications mounted a sustained defense of the status quo after the police murder of George Floyd touched off the largest political mass movement in U.S. history." --The New Republic "Karakatsanis's close readings of news articles from major outlets show that journalists habitually regurgitate pro-police narratives--many of which revolve around how more funding for law enforcement is needed to bring down crime rates--and omit the perspectives of non-police experts and studies showing that law enforcement has no correlation with crime rates. . . . Readers will be aghast." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Alec Karakatsanis exposes our criminal injustice system for what it is: a bureaucracy of punishment, propped up by a biased media machine that feeds mass incarceration. After Copaganda, you'll never read the news the same way again." --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow "Alec Karakatsanis is a gifted civil rights lawyer and a fearless guide to the urgent project of calling out the many failures of modern coverage of crime and justice. Only by really understanding those failures--why, for instance, news outlets tend to ignore ubiquitous crimes like wage theft but spill endless ink on certain street crimes--can we hope to heal our communities." --Sarah Stillman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and staff writer, The New Yorker "Karakatsanis cuts to the heart of the rancid politics of crime, and the ways in which journalists and academics reproduce inequality and immiseration by legitimating America's massive punishment bureaucracy. Copaganda is a masterful analysis, a call to action, and a blueprint for change." --Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing

SynopsisFrom the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters "Alec Karakatsanis is a leading voice in the legal struggle to dismantle mass incarceration. . . . What he says cannot be ignored." --James Forman, Jr. "Copaganda," as defined by Alec Karakatsanis, describes a special kind of propaganda, perpetuated by the police and media, that affects who and what we fear and what kinds of social investments we support to address our fears. At a time when the United States incarcerates five times more people per capita than its own historical average and five to ten times more people per capita than other countries, its vast punishment bureaucracy spends huge amounts of time and money manipulating the rest of us to see the world from its point of view. As a result, we see a grossly distorted version of crime, punishment, and safety in our newspapers, magazines, and other media outlets. The news generates fear by focusing on crimes committed by the most marginalized people while ignoring far more serious threats to our collective well-being, from wage theft by corporations to environmental crimes to the deaths that result from cigarette smoke (which make the number of violent crimes pale in comparison). And it falsely suggests that the best way to respond to our fear is to increase government repression through police, prosecution, and prisons as opposed to addressing the root causes of interpersonal harm. In the spirit of such classics as Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent, Copaganda includes chapters on "What Is News?," "Public Relations Spending by the Police," "Whose Perspective? How Sources Shape News," "How the News Uses Experts," "How to Smuggle Ideology into the News," and "Academic Copaganda." Already called "one of the most prominent voices on [copaganda]" (Teen Vogue), with a huge following on social media and appearances discussing copaganda on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and The Breakfast Club, Karakatsanis brings a legal eye, humor, gripping personal stories, and a keen ability to read between the lines to a topic at the forefront of one of the most pressing public debates in our society., From a prizewinning civil rights lawyer comes a powerful warning about how the media manipulates public perception, fueling fear and inequality, while distracting us from what truly matters "Alec Karakatsanis exposes our criminal injustice system for what it is: a bureaucracy of punishment, propped up by a biased media machine that feeds mass incarceration. After Copaganda, you'll never read the news the same way again." --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow In this groundbreaking expose, essential for understanding the rising authoritarian mindset, award-winning civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis introduces the concept of "Copaganda." He defines Copaganda as a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media that stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society's responses to it. Every day, mass media manipulates our perception of what keeps us safe and contributes to a culture fearful of poor people, strangers, immigrants, unhoused people, and people of color. The result is more and more authoritarian state repression, more inequality, and huge profits for the massive public and private punishment bureaucracy. For readers of Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, Copaganda documents how modern news coverage fuels insecurity against these groups and shifts our focus away from the policies that would help us improve people's lives--things like affordable housing, adequate healthcare, early childhood education, and climate-friendly city planning. These false narratives in turn fuel surveillance, punishment, inequality, injustice, and mass incarceration. Copaganda is often hidden in plain sight, such as: When your local TV station obsessively focuses on shoplifting by poor people while ignoring crimes of wage theft, tax evasion, and environmental pollution When you hear on your daily podcast that there is a "shortage" of prison guards rather than too many people in prison When your newspaper quotes an "expert" saying that more money for police and prisons is the answer to violence despite scientific evidence to the contrary Recognized by Teen Vogue as "one of the most prominent voices" on the criminal legal system, Karakatsanis brings his sharp legal expertise, trenchant political analysis, and humorous storytelling to drastically alter the way we consume information, while offering a hopeful path forward. One towards a healed humanity--and media system--with a vested interest in public safety and equality., From a prizewinning civil rights lawyer comes a powerful warning about how the media manipulates public perception, fueling fear and inequality, while distracting us from what truly matters "Alec Karakatsanis exposes our criminal injustice system for what it is: a bureaucracy of punishment, propped up by a biased media machine that feeds mass incarceration. After Copaganda , you'll never read the news the same way again." -Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow In this groundbreaking expose, essential for understanding the rising authoritarian mindset, award-winning civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis introduces the concept of "Copaganda." He defines Copaganda as a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media that stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society's responses to it. Every day, mass media manipulates our perception of what keeps us safe and contributes to a culture fearful of poor people, strangers, immigrants, unhoused people, and people of color. The result is more and more authoritarian state repression, more inequality, and huge profits for the massive public and private punishment bureaucracy. For readers of Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, Copaganda documents how modern news coverage fuels insecurity against these groups and shifts our focus away from the policies that would help us improve people's lives--things like affordable housing, adequate healthcare, early childhood education, and climate-friendly city planning. These false narratives in turn fuel surveillance, punishment, inequality, injustice, and mass incarceration. Copaganda is often hidden in plain sight, such as: When your local TV station obsessively focuses on shoplifting by poor people while ignoring crimes of wage theft, tax evasion, and environmental pollution When you hear on your daily podcast that there is a "shortage" of prison guards rather than too many people in prison When your newspaper quotes an "expert" saying that more money for police and prisons is the answer to violence despite scientific evidence to the contrary Recognized by Teen Vogue as "one of the most prominent voices" on the criminal legal system, Karakatsanis brings his sharp legal expertise, trenchant political analysis, and humorous storytelling to drastically alter the way we consume information, while offering a hopeful path forward. One towards a healed humanity--and media system--with a vested interest in public safety and equality.

LC Classification NumberHV7936.P8K37 2025