- 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.
- Behind Enemy Lines
WWII Allied/Axis Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- 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.
- Black propaganda
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Black propaganda is false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side.
- Canadian War Posters
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
"The poster art that galvanized a young nation to action during two World Wars." 48 full-colour and 93 black and white posters.
- Climate Cover-Up
The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Tracking the global warming denial movement from its inception, public relations advisor James Hoggan (working with journalist Richard Littlemore), reveals the details of those early plans and then tracks their execution, naming names and exposing tactics in what has become a full-blown attack on the integrity of the public conversation.
- The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening.
- Communication for and Against Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Contested Truths
Keywords in American Politics since Independence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Creating the Corporate Soul
The Rise of Public Relations and Corporte Imagery in American Big Business
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Designing Pacifist Films
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1961
- Easily Led
A History of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
- Don Fenton
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Hasbara
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Sourcewatch's analysis of 'Hasbara' -- the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.
- Hasbara Handbook: Promoting Israel on Campus
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2002
A handbook on how to do pro-Israel advocacy.
- Hitler's Propaganda Machine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- 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.
- Inventing Tax Rage
Misinformation in the National Post
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
How the National Post created an agenda for the tax cuts that mostly benefits the wealthy.
- Inventing Tax Rage (excerpt)
Misinformation in the National Post
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
The propaganda campaign to invent "tax rage".
- 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.
- Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Resource Type: Book
- The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
- 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 and Minorities
Representing Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
- 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.
- 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."
- Newspapers and the Workers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1916
The worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his.
- Newspeak in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
- The not-so-hidden persuaders
The Israel lobby#s global propaganda manual
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
A major public relations manual for Israel lobbyists teaches pro-Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions.
- On Power and Ideology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- The Poster in History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- The Power of Persuation
The Politics of the New Right in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Kozolanka looks at how the New Right government of former Ontario Premier Mike Harris came to power by using successful strategies from other countries to gain public consent for its neo-conservative policies. Relying on evidence drawn from literature, interviews and content analysis, she argues that this trajectory was "neither haphazard nor narrowly constructed."
- A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
- Propaganda
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.
- Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuation
Resource Type: Book
- Radical Mass Media Criticism
A Cultural Geneology
Resource Type: Book
Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
- Radical Newspapers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1979
A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
- The Silent Revolution
Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Spin (public relations)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
In public relations, spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through providing an interpretation of an event or campaign to persuade public opinion in favor or against a certain organization or public figure.
- Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
- Sultans of Sleaze
Public Relations and the Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Reveals the extent to which we have been deceived by public relations firms on behalf of their unscrupulous clients -- the corporations and governments that control our society.
- Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
- Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Israel#s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government#s line on the Middle East conflict.
- Weapons of Mass Persuasion
Marketing the War Against Iraq
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
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