h i s t o r y
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Discovering America As It Is
By Valdas Anelauskas
(Clarity Press, Inc., 1999)
Discovering America as it Is provides one dissident's eye-view of America, contrasting what Anelauskas terms "American extreme capitalism" not only with the former Soviet system, but also with the more humane operations of European and other capitalisms. It provides a gripping blow by blow analysis of the negative effects and ramifications of major U.S. social policy directions over the past decade and raises serious questions concerning America's leading role as a model for development, and even its future competitiveness due to the deterioration of its human capital resulting from antisocial domestic policies.
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"I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby!" — A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact
By Bill Sloan
(Prometheus Books, 2001)
This entertaining history of America's supermarket tabloids offers a behind-the-scenes look at the intriguing world of tabloid journalism, and especially the unique personalities that made it a successful and influential force in today's media.
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Upside Down — A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
By Eduardo Galeano. Translated by Mark Fried.
(Metropolitan Books, 2000)
From the winner of the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom comes a bitingly funny, kaleidoscopic vision of the first world through the eyes of the third.
By Same Author
Also on MC: Galeano's acceptance speech for the 1999 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom
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j o u r n a l i s m
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The More You Watch the Less You Know: News Wars, Submerged Hopes, Media Adventures
By Danny Schechter
(Seven Stories Press, 1997)
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The
Business of Journalism — 10 Leading Reporters and Editors on the Perils and Pitfalls
of the Press
By William Serrin
(The New Press, 2000)
Ten leading reporters and editors speak for-the-record about the changes they've seen and the effects such changes have wrought in American journalism.
By Same Author
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m e d i a t h e o r y
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The Information Bomb
By Paul Virilio
(Verso, 2000)
"Civilization or the militarization of science?"
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p u b l i c
b r o a d c a s t i n g 
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Red-Hot Radio: Sex, Violence and Politics at the End of the American Century
By Saul Landau
(Common Courage Press, 1998)
Explosive commentary aimed at the rich and wicked, this crash-the-gates tour of politics, vice and corruption is a collection of commentaries by Saul Landau heard on Pacifica Radio.
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Made Possible By ... The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States
By James Ledbetter
(Verso, 1997)
An examination of the history and politics of the Public Broadcasting System in the United States, written by the media critic of The Village Voice.
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Air Wars — The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting
By Jerold M. Starr
(Beacon Press, 2000)
In documenting the struggle of one community's battle with the local public-broadcasting station, this book champions community activism and celebrates the triumphs of local interests.
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t e l e v i s i o n
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Primetime Blues: African Americans On Network Television
By Donald Bogle
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)
"Primetime Blues" is the first comprehensive history of African Americans on network television.
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Spy TV — Just Who Is the Digital TV Revolution Overthrowing?
By David Burke
(White Dot, 2000)
This might be the last generation to have privacy as we know it.
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On Television
By Pierre Bourdieu
(New Press, 1999)
This critical analysis of television and its effects on culture takes aim at the networks and their failure to provide the public with stimulating, broad-based programming.
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