- 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.
- Big media versus the people
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A look how "Big Media" shapes public attitudes, the economy, culture, leisure and education, and how governments have developed close relationships with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Newspaper Ownership in the Era of Convergence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An academic text aimed at scholars and students.
- Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they've deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it's not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
- Citizen Activism Challenges Protected Media Oligopoly
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The issue of news and information is playing a central role in this upsurge of citizen unrest in Chile.
- The Cultural Industries in Canada
Problems, Policies and Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
- Culture Inc.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
- 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.
- EFJ Alarmed by Restructuring in French, German and British International Public Broadcasters
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Today the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), expressed its concerns over restructurings and downsizing taking place in major public broadcasters in Europe.
- The Empire God Built
Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
- 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
- From Politics to Profit
The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
- Green Isle in the Sea; an informal history of the alternative press.
An Informal History of the Alternative Press
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
- Half of UK sees The Sun tabloid as 'negative influence'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Half of Britons see one of the UK's largest tabloids, The Sun, as a negative influence on society, according to a new poll.
- Hidden Agendas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
- Incisive books by Globe, SN writers show USA media dominance of Canada (book reviews)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
- 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.
- Journalism: Truth or Dare?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
- JournalismSources.com
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Lies The Media Tell us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
- 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 Names & Numbers
Your Connection to the Media
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2009
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
- MediaSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- The Missing News
Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
- Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
- No longer a real newspaper, new Globe betrays Canadians
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The new tarted-up, glossy, colour Globe and Mail is many things, but it is not a real “news paper.”
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
- Propaganda model
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A theory that alleges systemic biases in the mass media and seeks to explain them in terms of structural economic causes. Views the private media as businesses interested in the sale of a product - readers and audiences - to other businesses (advertisers) rather than that of quality news to the people.
- Les Proprietaires Des Medias
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- Seriously Free Speech Committee
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Shadows of Liberty
Resource Type: Film
Published: 2012
Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America and the public battle for truth and democracy.
- Sign Crimes/Road Kill
From Mediascape to Landscape
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
- Sources Select Resources
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
- Sources welcomes the Seriously Free Speech Committee
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: the Seriously Free Speech Committee. The SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine.
- Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
- When media bosses censor their own journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders condemns the censorship of Suelte la lengua (Talk freely), a programme that Canal 6 TV has not broadcast since 15 May without any explanation from its CEO, Paul Misselem.
- Who, or What, Is Behind Postmedia's Election Endorsements?
When hedge funds own newspapers, it's difficult to know
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Did thoughtful editors at Postmedia's daily newspapers across Canada consider the needs of their communities and then unanimously decide to endorse the Conservatives in election editorials?
- Why Hillary Won the Debate (Even though She Didn't)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
CNN and Facebook co-sponsored last week’s Democratic presidential frontrunners' "debate." After the event, CNN conducted a poll. "Who won the debate?" it asked. The result: 83% Bernie Sanders; 12% Hillary Clinton.
- The Yellow Journal
Issue 3 - July 8, 1974
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
Articles on Toronto Island homes in the news; a Brazilian trade mission; opinion polls; American control of the media.
- Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
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