1. Asper Nation
   Canada's Most Dangerous Media Company
   Resource Type: Book
   Mark Edge, the former Vancouver Province reporter, provides a detailed and albeit partisan history of Izzy Asper and his rise as a media mogul. Edge looks at the CanWest empire: it's legacy of big ownership, cross-media dominance of news markets and an agenda that includes tax reduction, smaller government and uncritical support for Isreal and the United States. He argues that the concentration of media in the hands of one company jeopardises journalistic freedom and he documents the firings of journalists and editors, byline strikes and resignations of angry writers who did not toe the Asper line. Although he is primarily concerned with CanWest the other media giants who are engaged in similar but less successful attempts to dominate the news markets are not let off the hook. Edge makes a persuasive argument for reform in media ownership.
2. Between the Lines
   How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1981
   An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
3. Big media versus the people
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   A look how "Big Media" shapes public attitudes, the economy, culture, leisure and education, and how governments have developed close relationships with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest.
4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
5. Canadian News Synthesis Project - December 1975
   Volume III Number 10
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1975
   The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
6. Canadian News Synthesis Project - January 1976
   Volume III Number 11
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1976
   The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
7. Canadian News Synthesis Project - February 1976
   Volume III Number 12
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1976
   The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
8. Canadian News Synthesis Project - March 1976
   Volume IV Number 1
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1976
   The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
9. Canadian News Synthesis Project - April 1976
   Volume IV Number 2
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1976
   The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
10. Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they've deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it's not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
11. Corporate Influence in the Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    Some nations can influence and control their media greatly. In addition, powerful corporations are becoming major influences on mainstream media. In some places major multinational corporations own media stations and outlets. Moreover, even as numbers of media outlets increase, the ownership is becoming ever more concentrated as mega mergers take hold. At the same time, vertical integration gives the big players even more avenues to cross-sell and cross-market their products for even more amazing profits. An effect of this though is a reduction in diversity and depth of content that the public can get, while increasing the political and economic power of corporations and advertisers. An informed population is crucial element to a functioning democracy.
12. Corporate-owned media manipulation threatens Canadian democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    How freedom of expression is threatened because corporate-owned media in Canada censor and manipulate the news.
13. Council of Canadians
    Resource Type: Website
    Promoting economic justicem safeguarding social programs, renewing democratization, asserting Canadian sovereignty, advancing alternatives to corporate-style free trade, and preserving the environment.
14. Culture Inc.
    The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
15. The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
16. Democracy's Oxygen 
    How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    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.
17. 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.
18. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone 
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
    
19. From Politics to Profit
    The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
20. Hidden Agendas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
21. 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.
22. JournalismSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
23. Lies The Media Tell us
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
24. 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.
25. Media Education Foundation
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1991
    Analyzing worldwide trends in media ownership, commercial content, and the media element of commercial globalization's encroachment on and redefinition of public space.
26. Media Names & Numbers
    Your Connection to the Media
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2009
    A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
    
27. MediaSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
28. 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?
29. 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."
30. No longer a real newspaper, new Globe betrays Canadians
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The new tarted-up, glossy, colour Globe and Mail is many things, but it is not a real “news paper.”
31. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
32. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
33. Propaganda model
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A theory that alleges systemic biases in the mass media and seeks to explain them in terms of structural economic causes. Views the private media as businesses interested in the sale of a product - readers and audiences - to other businesses (advertisers) rather than that of quality news to the people.
34. Les Proprietaires Des Medias
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    
35. Shadows of Liberty
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2012
    Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America and the public battle for truth and democracy.
36. 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.
37. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
38. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
39. What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Noam Chomsky shares his approach to analyzing media and reveals the meaning and consequence of the strategic design of communication.
40. Who, or What, Is Behind Postmedia's Election Endorsements?
    When hedge funds own newspapers, it's difficult to know
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Did thoughtful editors at Postmedia's daily newspapers across Canada consider the needs of their communities and then unanimously decide to endorse the Conservatives in election editorials?
41. Why Hillary Won the Debate (Even though She Didn't)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    CNN and Facebook co-sponsored last week’s Democratic presidential frontrunners' "debate." After the event, CNN conducted a poll. "Who won the debate?" it asked. The result: 83% Bernie Sanders; 12% Hillary Clinton.
42. The Yellow Journal
    Issue 3 - July 8, 1974
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    Articles on Toronto Island homes in the news; a Brazilian trade mission; opinion polls; American control of the media.
43. Yesterday's News
    Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.

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