1. America#s last taboo
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2002
   The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
2. 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.
3. Blindspots in The News
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1995
   The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
4. Confessions of a Media Critic
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1984
   Barrie Zwicker says that with the planet in crisis it isn't time for 'business as usual', least of all in journalism.
5. 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.
6. A History of News
   From the Drum to the Satellite
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   
7. 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.
8. It Ain't Necessarily So
   How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2002
   Looks at the confusion and inaccuracies surrounding media reporting of scientific studies, surveys and statistics.
9. 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.
10. 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."
11. News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
    Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
12. Newspeak in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
13. 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.
14. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
15. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
16. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
17. Tracking the News that Wasn#t
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
18. Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    
19. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.

Experts on News Bias in the Sources Directory

1. Electronic Intifada
2. Seriously Free Speech Committee
3. Simon Fraser University
4. Barrie Zwicker
5. Sources Select Resources