1. All the news that's fit to miss: blind spots in Canadian reporting (book review)
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2000
   
2. 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.
3. Autonomous Media
   Activating Resistance & Dissent
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
4. The Best Censored Stories of 1989
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Exposing an issue that was otherwise overlooked or under-reported by national news media.
5. The Best Censored Stories of 1989
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1990
   
6. 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.
7. Blindspots in The News
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1995
   The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
8. CBC left-wing?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   
9. 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.
10. Censored! The news that didn't make the news-and why (book review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
    
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. In The News
    The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
15. In the News
    The Practice of Media Relations in Canada - 2nd Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    An introduction of media relations in Canada, from both a practical and philosophical approach.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
20. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
    Resource Type: Book
    
21. 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.
22. Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
23. 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.
24. 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?
25. 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."
26. News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada - Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
27. 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.
28. Newspeak in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
29. Project Censored Canada established as America's Censored Newsletter dies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
    
30. The Sources HotLink
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
31. 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.
32. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
33. 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.
34. Ten Best Censored Stories of 1988
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Documenting the failure of the mass media to provide Americans with all the information they need to make informed decisions.
35. 10 Best Censored Stories of 1988
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    
36. Towers of Deception
    The Media Cover-Up of 9/11
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    
37. Tracking the News that Wasn#t
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
38. Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    
39. Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    If you want to have the first idea what is happening in Israel/Palestine (or most of the rest of the world), the best thing to do would be to turn the Canadian media off completely.
40. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
41. 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.
42. 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.
43. Why does the CBC invariably turn to American experts to explain any issue?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
    Based on what we hear on the CBC, we can only assume that there is an internal policy manual which mandates that all discussions on issues of more than strictly local importance must include at least one American expert.

Experts on Media Bias in the Sources Directory

1. Electronic Intifada
2. Honest Reporting Canada
3. Media Awareness Network
4. Radical Digressions
5. The Sources HotLink
6. Barrie Zwicker
7. Sources Select Resources