1. After the Cataclysm
   Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Right:s)
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1979
   
2. Agreement on terms
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First 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.
3. America’s last taboo
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2002
   The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
4. Autonomous Media
   Activating Resistance & Dissent
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2005
   Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
5. The Best Censored Stories of 1989
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1990
   
6. The Best Censored Stories of 1989
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Exposing an issue that was otherwise overlooked or under-reported by national news media.
7. Between the Lines
   How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1981
   
8. Blindspots in The News
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1995
   The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
9. Canadian Media in Crisis
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   How so-called "business journalism" is often biased and tends to give readers a distorted picture of the news.
10. CBC left-wing?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
14. Chronicles of Dissent
    Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
18. 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.
19. Democracy's Oxygen
    How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
20. Deterring Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
21. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
22. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
23. Everything under control, Life in a managed society
    New Internationalist April 1985
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1985
    A deluge of commercial messages are subtly undermining the consumer's ability to make autonomous decisions. Discussion of why, and how, social control is becoming the norm in Western societies.
24. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
25. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression – they are for it ‘in principle’, but only so long as it isn’t used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
    
26. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
    
27. Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Keeping the media safe for big business.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. Introduction to the Media Guide
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
32. 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.
33. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
34. 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.
35. Kyrgyzstan's dubious success
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    In Kyrgyzstan, everyone is better off - except for the vast majority of the population.
36. 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.
37. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    
38. The lying silence of those who know
    Holocaust Denied
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    In every war, Israel has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft or more and more land.
39. 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.
40. 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.
41. Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    
42. Media bias on the Middle East
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Part of the Palestine: Information with Provenance (PIWP database). Provides documents from all points on the ideological spectrum, both Zionist and anti-Zionist, along with background on everybody whose opinion you find here. Also lets you see what our sources say about each other.
43. 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.
44. Medialens
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media.
    MediaLens is a response based on our conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. We are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable.
    In seeking to understand the basis and operation of this systematic distortion, we flatly reject all conspiracy theories and point instead to the inevitably corrupting effects of free market forces operating on and through media corporations seeking profit in a society dominated by corporate power.
45. Misrepresented? Hugo Chavez and the Western Media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    An interview with Julia Buxton about Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, and target of concerted criticism in the western media.
46. 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?
47. 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."
48. Neocon con game: First deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
    Margaret Wente's Chutzpah
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    The neocon con game: first deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
    
49. News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada - Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
50. News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
    Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
51. One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1988
    'Business' is also about the people who actually work in the offices, factories, and farms, who are so profoundly affected by what happens in the world of capital.
52. 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.
53. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
    
54. Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
55. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    
56. Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    The Scientists Are The Bad Guys.
57. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    Ulli Diemer's Notebook: events and comment from a left perspective.
    
58. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
59. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
    
60. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
    
61. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
    
62. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
63. The Sources HotLink 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2009
    A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
64. 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.
65. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
66. The Star's biased reporting
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    The Star's Orwellian journalism.
67. 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.
68. Telling It
    Women and Language Across Cutures
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
69. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
70. Ten Best Censored Stories of 1988
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Documenting the failure of the mass media to provide Americans with all the information they need to make informed decisions.
71. 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.
72. Tracking the News that Wasn’t
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
73. Truth About Global Warming
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    Review of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, by Ross Gelbspan.
74. Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    If you want to have the first idea what is happening in Israel/Palestine (or most of the rest of the world), the best thing to do would be to turn the Canadian media off completely.
75. 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."
76. 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.
77. 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.
78. 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.
79. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
80. 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?
81. Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
82. Why does the CBC invariably turn to American experts to explain any issue?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1993
    Based on what we hear on the CBC, we can only assume that there is an internal policy manual which mandates that all discussions on issues of more than strictly local importance must include at least one American expert.

Experts on Media Bias in the Sources Directory

1. Electronic Intifada
2. Media Awareness Network
3. Radical Digressions
4. The Sources HotLink
5. Barrie Zwicker
6. Sources Select Resources