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Slanting the Story — The Forces that Shape the News
By Trudy Lieberman
(The New Press, 2000)
This book argues that think tanks, especially on the right, hold too much power over the way that issues are represented in the media.
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
(Pantheon Books, 1988)
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Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy
By James Fallows
(Pantheon Books, 1996)
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The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism
By Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney
(Cassell Books, 1997)
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Rich Media, Poor Democracy — Communication Politics in Dubious Times
By Robert McChesney
(The New Press, 2000)
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Capitalism and the Information Age
By Robert W. McChesney; Ellen Meiksins Wood, John Bellamy Foster, editors.
(Monthly Review Press, 1998)
By Same Author
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Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don't Want You to See
By David McGowan
(Common Courage Press, 2000)
From mandatory minimum sentencing laws to more liberal search-and-seizure rules, from "Three Strikes You're Out" to congressional legislation for a national ID card, in "Derailing Democracy" McGowan compiles facts to show the noose around democracy is tightening every day.
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Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos
By José Ignacio López Vigil
(Curbstone, 1994)
First published in El Salvador, where it was national bestseller, this is an earthy, funny, inspiring collection of oral histories told by the participants in one of the most audacious and successful people's political actions in the modern history of the world.
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Hidden Agendas
By John Pilger
(The New Press, 1998)
A reporter presents his coverage of legal arms dealers, South Africa's democracy, slave labor in Burma, and several other stories he feels the mainstream British media neglects.
By Same Author
Also on MC: John Pilger's The Value Of Business, The Business Of Values
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Governing with the News — The News Media as a Political Institution
By Timothy E. Cook
(The University of Chicago Press, 1998)
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