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After Broadcast News: Media Regimes, Democracy, and the New Information Environment by Bruce A. Williams and Michael X. Delli Carpini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 361 Pp.

Those involved with broadcast media, whether from inside the industry or the academy, have long bemoaned the decline of traditional and meaningful broadcast journalism. In this engaging book, Williams and Delli Carpini layout in impressive detail the case that the era of broadcast news dominance is over. In claiming that the current broadcast news media regime is at an end, the first part ofthe book provides historical perspective on the emergence and characteristics of past media regimes before outlining the factors that have slowly eroded broadcast journalism. The rest of the book offers detailed case studies that illustrate those characteristics at work. The factors that have led to the decay of modern broadcast news are meticulously addressed. The beginning of broadcasting's end is traced back two decades to the fall of communism. The conflict between east and west was a staple of networks' nightly broadcasts. When communism fell, the authors contend, a system that favored corporate profits over global interests accelerated. Not long after, the introduction of new technologies led to the deterio-