John Nichols is The Nation's Washington correspondent and an editor at the Capital Times. He is the author of The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney and Jews for Buchanan. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C.
Robert W. McChesney is a professor in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of "The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century" (Monthly Review Press), "Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times" (New Press), "Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy" (Open Media), and "Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting" (Oxford University Press).
