At a time when the Howard government has redically narrowed the national vision, the mainstream media has failed to notice or to hold it to account. Do Not Disturb offers diverse and enlightening explanations for this failure.

Tric Beecher gives reasons for the decline ol quality journalism, and Guy Rundle charts the rise of the attack-dog commenta-bors. Margaret Simons goes inside the ABC, while Jon Faine lifts the lid on the unruly democracy of talkback radio. Robert Manne explores the unnerving conformity of the Murdoch press on Irag, and David Marr points to the passivity of the media during the anti-refugee crackdown.

The contributors to Do Not Disturb are all independent insiders. At a time when the media rules are about to change, allowing even greater concentration of power, this book initiates a necessary debate for our democracy.