1. Between the Lines
   How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1981
   
2. Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News-And Why
   The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1996
   Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
3. Challenging McWorld
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2001
   
4. Chomsky on MisEducation
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000
   Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
5. Chomsky.Info 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
6. Chronicles of Dissent
   Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1993
   
7. A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   A comparative review of two recent books about the media, one a mainstream view, the other using the propaganda model of media control.
8. Confessions of a Media Critic
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1984
   Barrie Zwicker says that with the planet in crisis it isn't time for 'business as usual', least of all in journalism.
9. Covering Israel-Palestine: The BBC's Double Standards
   An Exchange With The BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2008
   The priorities of the news media mean that the more Palestinians are killed, the less importance their deaths have to news organisations. Conversely, the fewer Israelis killed the more seriousness their deaths are accorded.
10. The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States.
11. Democracy's Oxygen
    How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
12. The Empire God Built
    Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
13. FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    U.S. media watch group that documents and criticizes media bias and censorship, scrutinizes media practices that marginalize public interest, minority, and dissenting viewpoints, and advocates for greater diversity in the press.
14. The Great Unravelling
    From Boom to Bust in Three Short Years
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    
15. Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Keeping the media safe for big business.
16. Intellectual Cleansing: Part 2
    Former Guardian and Observer Journalist Jonathan Cook Responds
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Most ambitious journalists start out on a daily local newspaper owned by one of a handful of large media groups. There one quickly feels all sorts of institutional constraints on one's reporting. As a young journalist, if you know no better, you simply come to accept that journalism is done in a certain kind of way, that certain stories are suitable and others unsuitable.
17. Intellectual Cleansing: Part 3
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The tendency to self-deception appears to be greatly increased when we join as part of a group. Groups create a sense of belonging, a "we-feeling", which can provide even greater incentives to reject painful truths.
18. Intellectual Self-Defense
    Find Your Inner Chomsky
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2008
    What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from mysticism to news reporting.
19. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
20. Jonathan Cook - Response to Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    However grateful we should be to the tiny minority of dissident writers, their relegation to the margins of the commentary pages of Britain’s “leftwing” media serves a useful purpose for corporate interests. It helps define the “character” of the British media as provocative, pluralistic and free-thinking – when in truth they are anything but. It is a vital component in maintaining the fiction that a professional media is a diverse media.
21. Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    While it is often the case that the majority of Americans do see the light—about the need for healthcare reform, a new energy policy or affordable, high-quality day care—the dominant journalistic practices, especially in broadcast and cable news, dim the light in favor of noise. Far-right Republicans understand, almost instinctively, this preference for noise. And they appreciate—and know how to cultivate—the greatest bias in electronic journalism right now: the laziness bias. The laziness bias means you feature sensation over substance, provocative sound bites over investigative reporting, misinformation over fact.
22. The Left-Wing Media Fallacy
    Jeremy Bowen, The BBC, And Other National Treasures
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The issue is not complex, not esoteric: in a world dominated by corporate power we rely on media corporations for news about that world. Future generations will surely be aghast that so few people today are able to perceive the perfectly obvious problem, the very clear source of mass control, that this implies.
23. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
24. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    
25. Lies The Media Tell us
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    
26. Mainstream Media And The Propaganda Machine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Mainstream media, especially the American media plays a vital role in shaping the world public opinion.
27. Making Sense of the Media
    A Handbook of Popular Education Techniques
    Resource Type: Book
    A handbook for teaching critical analysis of the mass media. It is designed for classroom use in any group setting, including high school, adult literacy, ESL, labour, and community organizing.
28. Manufacturing Consent 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1992
    A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
29. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
30. Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
    An interview with Robert McChesney
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Robert McChesney talks about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it.
31. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
32. Mediachannel.org
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Reports, opinions and links on media issues, including media news and links to hundreds of media issues organizations around the world.
33. Mental Engineering
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Web site of the TV program that critiques advertising and television.
34. The Missing News 
    Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
35. Necessary Illusions 
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
36. News and Dissent
    The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Hackett digs deep into several issues that affect how we hear, read, and see what is reported to us, as well as who and what decide exactly what is it that we hear, read and see.
37. Palestine Media Watch
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    PMWATCH was established to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories. Includes tools and suggestions for action on media bias.
38. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    
39. Publicity and Media Resources 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resources and publications to assist your organization in getting more and better media coverage and raising awareness.
    
40. Radical Mass Media Criticism
    A Cultural Geneology
    Resource Type: Book
    Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
41. Sign Crimes/Road Kill
    From Mediascape to Landscape
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
42. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
43. Sustaining Democracy?
    Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Tthe authors argue that "the regime of objectivity" should give way to a journalism aimed at sustaining democracy.
44. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy 
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 1997
    The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
45. Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Provides a list and indepth analysis of the top 25 stories that were censored throughout the year in 2009.
46. Tracking the News that Wasn’t
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
47. War, Peace and the Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983   Published: 1985
    Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
48. Weapons of Mass Persuasion
    Marketing the War Against Iraq
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
49. What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    Noam Chomsky shares his approach to analyzing media and reveals the meaning and consequence of the strategic design of communication.
50. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
51. Who Should Bomb Iran First?
    The Myth Of Left-Leaning Media Bias
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Mainstream media discussions of media balance are limited to a single question: Is the media too critical of powerful interests?
52. Women Are Not Wallpaper
    Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli interview filmmaker Erik Gandini
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Something new is appearing on the Italian screen. About time, some may say.

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