Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy By Siva Vaidhyanathan
Breaking the Sound Barrier By Amy Goodman
Democracy, Inc. By David Allen
Digital Destiny By Jeff Chester
End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate By Alexander Cockburn
Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media By David Edwards and David Cromwell
It’s the Media, Stupid – by John Nichols (Author), Barbara Ehrenreich (Author), Ralph Nader (Author), Paul Wellstone (Author), Robert W. McChesney (Author) This indepth analysis should put an end to the myth of liberal bias in the media. As the Left has been saying for years, the media is only as liberal as the conservative corporations that own them. We seem to be tumbling towards a world in which everything is owned by a relatively few number of conjoined companies whose activities are reported on by a handful of aqenda-driven media giants all bent on diseminating a particular view of predigested news aimed at the lowest common denominator. There has to be another way although, like a previous reviewer, I’m not sure all the solutions in this book will work. While all industries have undergone tremendous consolidations in the past decade, none of them have the impact on our culture and democracy as do the media giants. The delivery of targeted viewers and users to advertisers is the goal of the media giants, not the creation of an informed citizenry. In fact, the author demonstrates that considerable censorship is exercized to prevent views that question the corporate order as well as their own restricted information flows from reaching the public.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media By Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters By C. Edwin Baker
News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy By Elliot D. Cohen (editor)
Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America By Bruce Shapiro (Editor)
Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism that Changed the World By John Pilger (editor)
The Case Against Media Consolidation By Mark Cooper
The News About the News By Leonard Downie Jr. & Robert G. Kaiser
The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in a Digital Age By Astra Taylor
Toxic Sludge is Good for You By John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
Trust Us, We’re Experts By Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture By Clay Calvert
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