Paul Starr received his BA from Columbia University in
1970 and his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard in 1978.
He is a professor of
sociology and public affairs, and the Stuart professor of communications
and public affairs at Princeton University. He is a co-founder of the
journal The American
Prospect which is a liberal magazine about
politics, policy, and ideas.
He has authored 9 books including The Creation of
the Media for which he won the 2005 Goldsmith Book prize. He received the 1984 Pulitzer
Prize for Nonfiction and Bancroft Prize in American History for The
Social Transformation of American Medicine. He has also authored many articles ,reviews and op-ed pieces on political
and social topics.
In his book The
Creation of the Media he discusses how freedom of the pres, intellectual property, privacy and public access to information has affected America socially and economically.
Given his broad area of interest spanning politics to the
media he is perfectly positioned to write our reading for this week Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a
New Era of Corruption)
Why American politics
and society are about to be changed for the worse.
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