Prologue to a FarceA popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. James Madison, 1822 Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communication and democracy in the United States. In Prologue to a Farce, he argues that citizens political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technologies, but that the U. S. communications