Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News

Publisher:  Black Rose Press, Montreal, Canada
Year Published:  1997
Pages:  199pp   Price:  $23.99   ISBN:  1-55164-06-9
Library of Congress Number:  P92.C3W55Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX6135

Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Mediasaurus
2. The Black Market
3. Paul Desmarais and Power
4. The Public Interest
5. News as a Management Product
6. Media Think
7. Project Censored Canada
8. Patterns in Under-Reported Stories
9. Conclusions

Appendices

A Media Corporation Assets
B Media-Corporate Director Board Interlocks
C Dailies by Chain Ownership
D Alternative Media
E 1995 Compensation for CEOs
F Newspaper Ownership by Province
G Selected Wealthy Canadians

Index

Subject Headings

• Advertising
• Alternative Media
• Banking
• Bias
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
• Canadian Media
• Capitalism
• Censorship
• Corporate Media
• Corporations
• Debt
• Democracy
• Economics/Free Market
• Economy
• Education
• Employment
• Freedom of the Press
• Jobs
• Labour Force
• Media Analysis & Criticism
• Media Bias
• Media Ownership
• News Bias
• News Coverage
• Privatization
• Taxation
• Technology
• Unions