- 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.
- 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.
- Designing Pacifist Films
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 1961
- 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.
- Report of the Royal Commission on Violence in the Communications Industry
Volume I: Approaches, Conclusions and Recommendations Resource Type: Book Published: 1976
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