- Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1981 An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1980
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
- Follow the Money, Part 5 - The Tobacco Papers Revisited
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Michael Walker, former executive director of the Fraser Institute, long denied that institute directors the people who fund the institutes work can tell researchers what to do. According to this rosy view of the think tanks mission, Big Oil directors from Calgary, for instance, dont tell Fraser Institute researcher Kenneth Green to produce studies denying global warming or proving that the Keystone and Northern Gateway pipelines are crucial for Canadas economic survival. Green does these on his own because thats what his research indicates.
- Follow the Money, Part 6 - Obesity: A new role for second-hand-smoke-causes-cancer deniers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The tobacco industry has shifted its doubt-manufacturing operations to countries like Russia, Indonesia and China, where the incidence of smoking and cancer continues to rise. But other industries with deep pockets need to manufacture doubt about the health risks of their products.
- Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
- Israel Calls a Man Its Soldiers Killed a 'Terrorist': Until They Realized He Was an Israeli Jew
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The Jerusalem Post today describes the killing of a man by two IDF soldiers after, the soldiers claim, he was acting erratically and tried to grab one of their guns. When he was fatally shot by the IDF, says the paper, he was "believed to be an Arab terrorist." As it turns out, he was not an Arab Palestinian but rather an Israeli Jew. Upon learning this, the "terrorist" designation was officially and "immediately" rescinded.
- Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
- Media Think
Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
- People's Aesthetics
Resource Type: Article Published: 1995 An essay on self-proclaimed "progressives" and their hypocritical defense of cultural hierarchies and consumption of popular or lower middle class culture for camp value. He opines that the distinction between craft and art is class based.
- Politics of Communication
A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation Resource Type: Book Published: 1973
- The unrecognised truth behind that 'spontaneous' Belfast riot
Violence was planned by manipulative, self-interested individuals Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 An analysis of sectarian violence in Belfast between the loyalists and republicans and the international media coverage of this violence, which often frames it as political.
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