1. Banned Books
   Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1970
   
2. Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
   The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
3. 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.
4. A History of News
   From the Drum to the Satellite
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   
5. How the Trafigura story came to be told
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Gag defeated by press, web users and MPs.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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?
10. The Press and the Cold War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
11. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
12. 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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