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  1. Agreement on terms
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
  2. Books of Interest - Sources 58
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
  3. Chomsky for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  4. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  5. Contested Truths
    Keywords in American Politics since Independence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  6. Knowledge of Language
    Its Nature, Origin and Use
    Resource Type: Book
  7. Orwell
    The War Broadcasts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  8. Politics and the English Language
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1946
  9. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  10. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
    The Russell Lectures
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  11. Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
  12. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  13. Some of my best comrades are friends
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    The left’s sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
  14. Speaking and Language
    Defence of Poetry
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  15. Words that Count Women In - Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Review of Words that Count Women In. A guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech.
  16. Words, words, words...
    Diemer, Ulli
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    The misuse of language implies a failure to think clearly, to analyse correctly, to communicate with others.

Experts on Language in the Sources Directory

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  2. University of Winnipeg
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