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. America’s last taboo
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   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.
3. Autonomous Media
   Activating Resistance & Dissent
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   
4. 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.
5. CBC left-wing?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   
6. Chomsky.Info
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
7. Chronicles of Dissent
   Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1993
   
8. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   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.
9. Deterring Democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1991
   
10. 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)."
11. Everything under control, Life in a managed society
    New Internationalist April 1985
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    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.
12. Globe and Mail's pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
13. Introduction to the Media Guide
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
14. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2006
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
15. Kyrgyzstan's dubious success
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    In Kyrgyzstan, everyone is better off - except for the vast majority of the population.
16. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
    Resource Type: Book
    
17. Manufacturing Consent
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1992
    A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
18. Manufacturing Consent
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
19. Margaret Wente's chutzpah
    Neo-con con game
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2005
    The neocon con game: first deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
    
20. Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. The Missing News
    Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    
25. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
26. News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada - Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
27. News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News.
28. One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
29. 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.
30. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
    
31. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    
32. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2006
    
33. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    
34. The Sources HotLink
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2007
    A newsletter dealing with media relations strategies. Most articles and issues available online and in print.
35. Sources Select Resources
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
36. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    
37. The Star's biased reporting
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    The Star's Orwellian journalism.
38. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    
39. Telling It
    Women and Language Across Cutures
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
40. 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.
41. Tracking the News that Wasn’t
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
42. Truth About Global Warming
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Review of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, by Ross Gelbspan.
43. Weapons of Mass Persuasion
    Marketing the War Against Iraq
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    
44. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
45. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
46. Why does the CBC invariably turn to American experts to explain any issue?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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. Barrie Zwicker
2. The Sources HotLink
3. Sources Select Resources