Manufacturing Consent |
Noam Chomskyand Edward Herman, Pantheon |
The Media Monopoly |
Ben Bagdikian, Beacon Press
When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian’s warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation’s news “alarmist.” |
Necessary Illusions |
Thought Control in Democratic Societies |
Rich Media, Poor Democracy |
Robert McChesney, Univ of Illinois |
The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media |
Norman Solomon, Common Courage
With a focus on “decoding spin and lies in mainstream news,” Solomon looks at how centralized media power routinely skews media coverage of key issues in favor of corporate interests and militaristic foreign policies. |
Writing Dissent |
Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream Robert Jensen, Peter Lang |
The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting |
David Barsamian, South End
Foreword by Amy Goodman Concentration of the media has reached new heights, making it harder for alternative and critical voices to gain a hearing. Market pressures increasingly have encroached on the original mission of public broadcasting, which was to “provide a voice for groups that may otherwise be unheard.” “We are subjected to programming that is vacuumed of content, that presents a range of opinion from A to B, from GE to GM,” Barsamian writes. |
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