1. Between the Lines
   How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   
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. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Letters from Lexington
   Reflections on Propaganda
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1993
   
10. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
    Resource Type: Book
    
11. 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.
12. The Long Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    
13. Mad Cows and Mother's Milk
    The Perils of Poor Risk Communication
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Using a series of case studies, Douglas Powell and William Leiss outline the crucial role of risk communication practice and malpractice to provide a set of lessons for risks managers and communicators.
14. 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.
15. Massive Uncritical Publicity for Supposed "Independent UFO Investigation"
    Demonstrates Media Gullibility Once Again
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1998
    
16. 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.
17. The Media Game
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
18. 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.
19. Media Watch: When the Media Tell Half the Story
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    
20. 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?
21. 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."
22. News and Dissent
    The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Hackett digs deep into several issues that affect how we hear, read, and see what is reported to us, as well as who and what decide exactly what is it that we hear, read and see.
23. Newspeak in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
24. Nielsen Media Research (Canada)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
25. Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    How media have taken over our lives.
26. Publicity and Media Resources
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resources and publications to assist your organization in getting more and better media coverage and raising awareness.
    
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. Subliminal Seduction
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
31. 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.
32. Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    
33. Tracking the News that Wasn’t
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
34. Understanding Media
    The Extensions of Man
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1964
    
35. War, Peace and the Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
36. 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.

Experts on Media Analysis & Criticism in the Sources Directory

1. Honest Reporting Canada
2. Media Awareness Network
3. Sources
4. Barrie Zwicker