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Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women
By Andrea L. Press and Elizabeth R. Cole
(University of Chicago Press, 1999)

A study of how women's views of television and the media relate to their personal stance on abortion.


 
Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising
By Jean Kilbourne
(The Free Press, 1999)

This frightening expose reveals how advertisers use what they know about consumers' inner desires and dreams to make sure they develop an addictive relationship to their products.

 
Information Inequality: The Communications Industry & the Deepening Social Crisis in America
By Herbert I. Schiller
(Routledge, 1996)
 

 
The Media & Morality
Robert M. Baird, William E. Loges, Stuart E. Rosenbaum, editors.
(Prometheus Books, 1999)
 

 
Mind Abuse: Media Violence in an Information Age
By Rose A. Dyson
(Black Rose Books, 2000)

This book is the "first broad, comprehensive, critical history and analysis of the issue of media violence."

 
Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media
By Pamela Newkirk
(New York University Press, 2000)
 
Newkirk exposes the trials and triumphs of African-American journalists as they struggle in newsrooms across America in pursuit of more equitable coverage of racial minorities.

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The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word
By Mitchell Stephens
(Oxford University Press, 1998)

Mitchell Stephens, a professor of journalism, asserts that the moving image is likely to make our thoughts not more feeble but more robust.
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