1. All Massacres Will Become 'Alleged Massacres' If We Don't Pay Attention
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
   The greatest enemy of all journalists – and all politicians – is the failure of institutional, historical memory.
2. Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   Swanson calls into question the US government-driven media accusations that the Russian government had direct involvement in swaying the 2016 US election for Trump, and exames the motivations behind these claims.
3. An alternative media list
   Getting the news - and getting behind the news
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014   Published: 2017
   A selective list of English-language alternative media.
4. The American Press Is Destroying Itself
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2020
   The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation. They are counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily. They've conned organization after organization into empowering panels to search out thoughtcrime, and it’s established now that anything can be an offense
5. Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz - Part 1
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   We live in a time when state-corporate interests are cooperating to produce propaganda blitzes intended to raise public support for the demonisation and destruction of establishment enemies. Here we will examine five key components of an effective propaganda campaign of this kind.
6. Ancillary Lessons from Brexit
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   Apart from the substantive issues for the European elites of the Brexit referendum victory, two ancillary lessons have been thrust upon us, if we were not already wise to them. One, the contemptible character of the mainstream media. Two, the crucial importance of historical understanding.
7. Antiwar.com vs. the Decline of American Journalism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   What is the "alternative" media? If we look at the phrase itself, it seems to mean the media that presents itself as the alternative to what we call the "corporate media," i.e. the New York Times, the Washington Post, your local rag – in short, the Legacy Media that predominated in those bygone days before the Internet. And yet this whole arrangement seems outdated, to say the least. The Internet has long since been colonized by the corporate giants: BuzzFeed, for example, is regularly fed huge dollops of cash from its corporate owners. And the Legacy Media has adapted to the primacy of online media, however reluctantly and ineptly. So the alternative media isn’t defined by how they deliver the news, but rather by 1) what they judge to be news, and 2) how they report it. And that’s the problem.
8. Apple and the Guardian: Partners in a Death Spiral
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   This report on Apple CEO Tim Cook's visit to a UK school to promote the company's new coding curriculum for schoolchildren could hardly be a better illustration of the way the Guardian newspaper serves as a key propagandist for aggressive global corporate capitalism, helping to create for it a façade of humanitarianism.
9. Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
   Sources reveal new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times and refute lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
10. The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the reporting of 'fake news' by the BBC, which has no legal obligation to give its audience any information about its sources and seemingly has legal protection from scrutiny.
11. The BBC's 'Bogeyman' Narrative on Hugo Chavez
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The changes in Venezuela, and throughout Latin America, over the past decade: the development of peaceful, democratic alternatives to the policies of neoliberalism; standards of living improved for millions of people following a process that has had popular, democratic support, are at risk of being written off as simply the actions of another 'anti-American' 'bogeyman' due to the media's relentless negative treatment of the Venezuelan government.
12. 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.
13. Beyond the dross
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Pilger and Platt discuss the craft of journalism.
14. 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.
15. Blacking Out the Yellow Vests on Cable News: Corporate Media Doing its Job
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    France is experiencing a left-leaning popular and working-class uprising consistent with the French revolutionary tradition of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity", yet the majorty of Western media have given very little investigation or serious attention to the momentous events.
16. Blair: Bombing Iraq Better. Again
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The authors critique the British media's coverage of a new essay by Tony Blair which attempts to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.
17. Blanket Silence: Corporate Media Ignore New Report Exposing Distorted And Misleading Coverage of Corbyn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A Media Reform Coalition report reveals that the corporate media in Britain have been producing an alarming amount of 'fake news' items, which includes a narrative that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour party are mired in an 'antisemitism crisis'. The corporate media have largely ignored the report, or any other reasoned criticism of their biased reporting.
18. A Blow for Peace and Democracy
    Why the British Said No to Europe
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.
19. Breaking the Media Blackout in Western Sahara
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Zurutuza describes how the Moroccan authorities repress journalists and media coverage of occupied Western Sahara.
20. Brexit and the new hostility to participatory democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The reaction to Brexit illustrates the desperate need for the Left to return to first principles. For, as the result broke on social media, a remarkable number of progressives directed their anger not at anti-immigrant demagogues and opportunist politicians but against the voters themselves and the very idea of a referendum in which they might express their will. It's merely the most recent illustration of a growing estrangement from democracy, not only on the mainstream Right but also on the Left.
21. Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the face of obvious crisis, the legitimacy of the system is rarely questioned.
22. Business journalists go on the attack; demonize Atlantic seasonal workers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude. Framed in disrespectful language, they’re promoting untested economic ideas that, if adopted, would seriously damage the economy – and the people – of the region.
23. The Button, the Wall and the Myth of Nations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    North Korean sanctions, the border wall with Mexico, and the "toxic" role of nationalism with regards to international relations and domestically in the US are discussed.
24. 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.
25. Challenging McWorld
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    
26. 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.
27. Chronicles of Dissent
    Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
28. Climate justice and migration in the media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A climate justice narrative is needed to communicate and enhance public understanding of migration induced by climate change. Key components must include human rights protection, greater equity in burdens sharing, and participation in decision-making processes.
29. The Comic Book Simplicity Of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The referendum campaign on Scottish independence heightened many people's awareness of the pro-elite bias of the 'mainstream' news media. The grassroots power of social media in exposing and countering this bias was heartening to see. But the issue of independence for Scotland is just one of many where the traditional media consistently favour establishment power.
30. A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak 
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
31. Confessions of a Media Critic
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
32. Confessions of an Alleged Russian Propagandist: A Pentagon Hit?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    While our corporate media don't talk about it, the US does run a vast propaganda operation, which includes the spawning and spreading of, guess what?, fake news stories! This kind of thing has gone on for years abroad, but since 2001, under both the Bush and Obama administrations, both the Pentagon and the US Information Agency have done away with an earlier ban on spreading such lies posing as news inside the US. Now we’re all fair game for US propaganda, which by the way the mainstream media routinely parrot.
33. 'Confirmed' Has Become A Meaningless Word In Mainstream News Reporting
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    The word "confirmed" has been misused and abused to such a spectacular extent in mainstream news reporting of late that it doesn’t actually mean anything anymore when they say it.
34. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
35. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
36. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
37. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
38. Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art.
39. 'A Conspiracy Of Silence' - HSBC, The Guardian And The Defrauded British Public
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Journalist Nafeez Ahmed has delved deeper into the HSBC scandal, reporting the testimony of a whistleblower that reveals a 'conspiracy of silence' encompassing the media, regulators and law-enforcement agencies.
40. 'A Conspiracy Of Silence' -- HSBC, The Guardian and the Defrauded British Public
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    An investigator and anonymous whistleblower talk about the suspicious lack of coverage and attention to the HSBC tax evasion scandal. This article talks about the scandal itself and criticizes the British liberal media.
41. Conundrum - Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    It's always a tricky moment for the corporate media when a foreign leader dies. The content and tone need to be appropriate, moulded to whether that leader fell into line with Western policies or not.
42. Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    We on the Left don't need to reflexively and absurdly jump to the defense of imperial criminals at the instigation of that (well, yes) "enemy of the people" the U.S. corporate and so-called mainstream war, news, and entertainment media.
43. Covering Israel-Palestine: The BBC's Double Standards
    An Exchange With The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
44. 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.
45. 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.
46. The Death of the Fourth Estate
    8000 Channels With One Corporate Message
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    According to a recent Gallup survey, only 40 percent of Americans believe what they read in newspapers. After scanning today’s tabloids, one only wonders why the percentage is that high.
47. The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    There is a real danger here that this maneuver could harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him. If any of the significant claims in this “dossier” turn out to be provably false -- such as Cohen’s trip to Prague -- many people will conclude, with Trump’s encouragement, that large media outlets (CNN and BuzzFeed) and anti-Trump factions inside the government (CIA) are deploying "Fake News" to destroy him. In the eyes of many people, that will forever discredit -- render impotent -- future journalistic exposés that are based on actual, corroborated wrongdoing.
48. 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.
49. Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
    Coverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Hurricane Katrina led many media reporters and commentators to reveal themselves and their deep-seated prejudices.
50. The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The corporate media's hostility towards Assange, Manning and WikiLeaks - obvious by lack of coverage or overt antagonism - shows it is tool of the state and big business.
51. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
52. Don't Blame the Media for the Charleston Murders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Featherstone argues that blaming the media for the Charleston Murders is an easy way to avoid doing any real thinking.
53. Eight reasons why the latest Syria chemical weapons attack allegations are almost certainly complete nonsense
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A discussion on the chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and why the allegations are likely false.
54. 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.
55. The Encyclopedia of Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
56. Exposure of Another Pro-War Lie Doesn't Make Media More Skeptical of Pro-War Claims 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The story of pro-Maduro forces burning trucks bringing aid to Venezuela has now been reported as false, even by corporate media. The bigger story of how and why this lie was propogated gets left behind.
57. FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) Internet site
    Resource Type: Website
    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.
58. Frame of Reference and Journalistic Integrity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A criticism of the article, "Journalism and the Illusion of Objectivity" by Michael Holtzman, challenging Holtzman's claims on the nature of objectivity and bias in reporting.
59. Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    Other than the ever-present risk of nuclear war, there is no greater threat to humanity than the climate crisis. And there is no more damning example of gaslighting by state-corporate media when they tell us we can trust governments and corporations to do what is required to avert catastrophe.
60. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
    
61. Grassroots media relations 
    A short introduction to media relations strategies for activist groups
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2017
    A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
62. The Great Unravelling
    From Boom to Bust in Three Short Years
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    
63. Guardian sinks into gutter on Corbyn - again
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Jeremy Corbyn today launched a review into the Labour party's supposed "anti-semitism crisis" -- in fact, a crisis entirely confected by a toxic mix of the right, Israel supporters and the media. I have repeatedly pointed out that misleading claims of anti-semitism (along with much else) are being thrown at Corbyn to discredit him.
64. Guardian's day of shame, and the dark depths of liberal McCarthyism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The liberal 'resistance' to Donald Trump has revealed a service media now plumbing its own dark, reactionary depths. A Guardian editorial has welcomed back to public prominence none other than George W Bush. Even for the Blair-protecting, war-apologising Guardian, it's a landmark day of shame.
65. 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.
66. How A-historical Journalism Serves Power
    A Calendar of Infamy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Contemporary journalism has a horrendous habit of considering history superfluous.
67. How The Guardian Undermines Jeremy Corbyn and the Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    teleSUR spoke to David Cromwell and David Edwards, co-editors of Media Lens, about The Guardian and corporate media's bias against Labour party leader Jeremy Cobyn.
68. How the Guardian became the West's Pravda
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Cook says that the British newspaper The Guardian has become a mouthpiece for the establishment.
69. How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops Campaign
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history.
70. How To Be A Reliable 'Mainstream' Journalist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A commentary on what is required to be a 'good' and 'reliable' journalist for the mainstream Western media.
71. The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Should the media include positive editorial content secretly paid for by major corporations, as London's Evening Standard newspaper has begun doing, according to new revelations?
    Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read?
72. If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
    Snowden Coverage
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Many of the same outlets that missed the Wall Street meltdown and cheer-led the Iraq invasion have come to resemble state-controlled media outlets in their near-total identification with the government.
73. The Illusion of Debate
    Consensus for the People that Matter
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in both Iraq and Syria. Perhaps the arbiters of the study intended to illustrate what we’ve learned since the fraudulent Iraq War of 2003. Well, it appears we’ve learned nothing.
74. The Illusion of Democracy
    Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘weirding’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices?
75. The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Fair-and-balanced Fox News reported on Wednesday that "Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and may be preparing to man Russian-made tanks to aid Damascus in fighting rebel forces backed by the U.S." Fox's claim of an imaginary enemy alliance relies on two sources: the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and an anonymous U.S. official.
76. In Mexico, Finally, a Revolt Against the Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The summer will determine if the “I Am 132” moment becomes a movement and that’s why “Mexican Spring” is a poor choice of words for it.
77. In Run-Up to Vote to End Yemen War, MSNBC Remains Totally Silent
    MSNBC outflanked from the left by Breitbart
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Johnson expresses concern about the lack of MSNBC coverage of the role of the USA in the conflict in Yemen since 2015.
78. Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The media response to Assange’s asylum request tells us much about the default brutality and reflexive herdthink of elite corporate journalism. The crucial importance of his achievements, of his cause, was deemed utterly irrelevant beside his allegedly unbearable personal failings.
79. The Inquisition of Climate Science
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. Lawrence Powell's book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk.
80. Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Keeping the media safe for big business.
81. Intellectual Cleansing: Part 2
    Former Guardian and Observer Journalist Jonathan Cook Responds
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
82. Intellectual Cleansing: Part 3
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
83. 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.
84. Israel Calls a Man Its Soldiers Killed a 'Terrorist': Until They Realized He Was an Israeli Jew
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Jerusalem Post today describes the killing of a man by two IDF soldiers after, the soldiers claim, he was acting erratically and tried to grab one of their guns. When he was fatally shot by the IDF, says the paper, he was "believed to be an Arab terrorist." As it turns out, he was not an Arab Palestinian but rather an Israeli Jew. Upon learning this, the "terrorist" designation was officially and "immediately" rescinded.
85. The Issue is Not Trump, It is Us
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Until real politics return to people's lives, the enemy is not Trump, it is ourselves.
86. Jonathan Cook - Response to Intellectual Cleansing Part 1 
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
87. Journalism and 'the words of power' 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
88. Journalism, Pro-GMO Triumphalism and Neoliberal Dogma In India
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    
89. 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.
90. Journalistic Malpractice at the Post and the Times
    Rejecting the Offer of Evidence of US War Crimes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Wikileaks source Bradley Manning is evidence that the USA’s two leading news organizations, the Washington Post and the New York Times, are not willing to report critically of the government.
91. Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
92. The Left-Wing Media Fallacy
    Jeremy Bowen, The BBC, And Other National Treasures
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
93. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
94. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    
95. 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.
96. A Life of Challenge to the Dogma of "Objectivity"
    Richard Bell Is Practiced at Juggling Journalism, Advocacy and Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Journalism, advocacy, politics: Are they completely different fields or aspects of the same game? Can someone actually do all three? Richard Bell has done them all and has lived to tell the tale.
97. 'A Load Of Tosh'– The BBC, 'Showbiz News' And State Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    BBC News reporting on international relations, with particular reference to 2017-2018 tensions with Russia, relies heavily on state propaganda.
98. Mainstream Media And The Propaganda Machine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Mainstream media, especially the American media plays a vital role in shaping the world public opinion.
99. Mainstream Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Mainstream media pundits undermine the chances of progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders despite the defeat of centrist politicians by the right.
100. Mainstream News And USA's Heroics In Vietnam
     Why The Silence About The 7 Million Dead?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     An account of the media's role in suppressing information about US military actions in Indochina from the 1940s and onward, and how the same tactics persist in the present.
101. 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.
102. 'The Man Who Knew Everyone' - Gore Vidal Through The Eyes Of The One Per Cent Press
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     Since Gore Vidal's death the corporate media have had nothing serious to say about his political dissent warning against the dominance of corporate power. As Vidal himself put it: ‘The bullshit just flows and flows and flows, and the American media is so corrupt and so tied into it that it never questions it.’
103. 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.
104. 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.
105. The Media and the Far Right
     Showcasing the Crude, the Violent and the Aberrant
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     The right-moving trend of the mainstream media, absurdly deemed liberal by successfully intimidating corporatists and ideological aggressors, continues year after year.
106. Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     After the US airstrikes that hit an MSF (Medecins Sans Frontières) hospital, many news outlets have depicted the event in a way that evades any American responsibility.
107. Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
     An interview with Robert McChesney
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Robert McChesney talks about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it.
108. Media Control
     The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1997   Published: 2002
     Chomsky begins by asserting two models of democracy: one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky "propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States.
109. Media Control and Indoctrination in the United States
     An Interview With Catherine Komp
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     An excerpt from the just released 2nd edition of Noam Chomsky’s OCCUPY: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity.
110. Media Review: Fake News
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2017
     Richard Seymour looks at the current debate around 'fake news'. What does the term refer to and is it as new as we think?
111. 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.
112. Mediachannel.org
     Resource Type: Website
     Reports, opinions and links on media issues, including media news and links to hundreds of media issues organizations around the world.
113. 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.
114. The Medium is The Middleman: For a Revolution Against Media 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1997
     Media now controls a new economic order: one that has supplanted governments, churches and productive industry to impose a mediating tyranny over people and our Daily Lives.
115. Mental Engineering
     Resource Type: Website
     Web site of the TV program that critiques advertising and television.
116. 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?
117. Money Talks, Bullshit Walks on Cable News
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     None of the big companies buying advertising time on CNN and MSNBC have any interest in the progressive taxation and restored union organizing and collective bargaining rights that Sanders advocates.
118. 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."
119. 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.
120. Newspeak in the 21st Century 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
121. 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.”
122. Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief Comparison
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.
123. Oscar Hangover Special: Why "Spotlight" Is a Terrible Film
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     I am astonished (though I suppose I shouldn't be) that, across the past few months, ever since Spotlight hit theatres, otherwise serious left-of-centre people have peppered their party conversation with effusions that the film reflects a heroic journalism, the kind we all need more of. I was in Boston in the Spring of 2002 reporting on the priest scandal, and because I know some of what is untrue, I don't believe the personal injury lawyers or the Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team or the Catholic "faithful" who became harpies outside Boston churches, carrying signs with images of Satan.
124. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
     Refugees
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2014
     Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
125. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
     Ukraine
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2015
     Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
126. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
     Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
127. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
     Fake News
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2016
     "Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
128. Painting a false picture
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A review of the book "The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media" by Greg Shupak.
129. Palestine Media Watch
     Resource Type: Website
     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.
130. The Petulant Entitlement Syndrome of Journalists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Jonathan Chait’s denunciation of the "PC language police" provoked intense reaction: much criticism from liberals and praise from conservatives.
131. Political Economy of Media
     Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas
     Resource Type: Book
     Demonstrates the incompatibility of the corporate media system with a viable democratic public sphere, and the corrupt policymaking process that brings the system into existence.
132. The Problem of the Media
     U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2004
     Gets to the roots of the crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement.
133. Profit over People
     Neoliberalism and Global Order
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1999
     Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
134. Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     A look at how corporate media distort the news. Uses recent examples such as the Scottish Independence referendum.
135. 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.
136. Publicity and Media Resources 
     Resource Type: Website
     Resources and publications to assist your organization in getting more and better media coverage and raising awareness.
     
137. Publish It Not!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     How Israel controls the way the international 'liberal' media portray its illegal and vicious occupation of Palestine and why the media allow them to get away with it.
138. 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.
139. A Response To George Monbiot's 'Disavowal'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     There is a pattern of 'mainstream' media insisting on the need for war in response to unproven claims that are often later debunked.
140. The Right Kind Of Terror
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies.
141. Seven Points Not on the Arab Media Agenda – What Is There to Celebrate?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     As media experts plan to establish an 'Arab Media Day', Baroud criticizes in seven points the censorship and repression of Arab journalism and media.
142. Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news organizations for lazily broadcasting the assertions of U.S. intelligence officials as established facts.
143. 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.
144. A Short Course in 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.
145. 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.
146. 'Smooth Operator?'
     The Propaganda Model and Moments of Crisis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     An article by Des Freedman on Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model for the mass media and moments of crisis (disagreements within the ruling class), focusing particularly on the Daily Mirror and its anti-war coverage in the build up to the Iraq war.
147. Some Standard Cynical CIA-Style Cuba Covid Reporting at The Washington Post
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2021
     Imperial cynics and propagandists can only see the world through the lens of cynicism and propaganda, which they project on to others.
148. 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.
149. The 'Superficial, Arrogant Smugness' of BBC News - Peter Oborne Delivers Some Home Truths On BBC Radio 4 Today
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     In a recent media alert, we noted the occasional tell-tale signs of uncomfortable truths that slip through cracks in the propaganda façade of BBC News. Very occasionally, the propaganda nature is clearly highlighted and can be enjoyed for its directness and the flustered BBC response it provokes.
150. Superunknown: Scientific Integrity Within the Academic and Media Industrial Complexes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Mattis provides an analysis of the competing priorities of scientists, funders and the media that together, create a perfect storm of "unscientific science".
151. Sustaining Democracy?
     Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1998
     Tthe authors argue that "the regime of objectivity" should give way to a journalism aimed at sustaining democracy.
152. 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.
153. Thinking The Right Thoughts
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     There are always convenient news-hooks on which corporate journalists can hang their power-friendly prejudices about the West being 'the good guys' in world affairs. The authors provide examples from the British media.
154. Time magazine honors journalists facing repression - but snubs Julian Assange
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' award for 2018, which did not list any journalist who exposed state secrets or government misconduct in the United States, nor whistleblowers from Israel, Egypt, India or any of the NATO countries.
155. Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Provides a list and indepth analysis of the top 25 stories that were censored throughout the year in 2009.
156. Tracking the News that Wasn't
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1996
     A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
157. Trump's Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old 'U.S. Values' and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Donald Trump's statement that the US would continue business and diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi may be blunter than people are used to but it is standard operating procedure of American policy.
158. 20 Years of Media Lens: Selection of Remarkable Replies from Journalists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2021
     
159. Understanding Power
     The Indispensable Chomsky
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2001   Published: 2002
     In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
160. Unreliable Sources
     A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1992
     Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
161. Unspeakable: the Black Book of Imperial Terrorism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     American "mainstream" journalists who want to keep their paychecks flowing and their status afloat know they must report current events in a way that respects the taboo status of the nation's underlying inequality and oppression structures and its savage and relentless imperial criminality.
162. The US Bubble of Pretend
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2022
     The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most Americans.
163. The U.S. Press and Repression in the Obama Era
     A New Awakening or Political Theater?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     The Obama administration’s is expanding its use of executive powers to intimidate and crush dissent had turned its focus on the U.S. press.
164. War by media and the triumph of propaganda 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war -- with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China. This truth is being turned upside down and inside out by journalists, including those who promoted the lies that led to the bloodbath in Iraq in 2003. The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an "invisible government". It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.
     Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims and low purpose of fake objectivity? And why are they not taught that the essence of so much of what's called the mainstream media is not information, but power?
165. 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."
166. Watch How Casually False Claims Are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     We have a perfect example of how this happens from the New York Times today, in a book review by Nicholas Lemann, the Pulitzer-Moore professor of journalism at Columbia University as well as a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker. Lemann is reviewing a new book by Edward J. Epstein -- the longtime neocon, right-wing Cold Warrior, WSJ op-ed page writer, and Breitbart contributor -- which basically claims Snowden is a Russian spy.
167. Watching The News
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2021
     Watching "The National" on CBC, as well as some local news programs, is proving to be an interesting experience. I haven't lived in a house with TV for more than 15 years, and hadn't watched TV news for many more years before that, so I come to this experience as a more-or-less naive outsider.
168. We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2021
     as journalists seek to liberate themselves from the strictures of the old corporate media, that same corporate media is working very hard to characterise the new technology as a threat to media freedoms. This self-serving argument should be treated with a great deal of scepticism. I want to use my own experiences to argue that quite the reverse is true. And that the real danger is allowing the corporate media to reassert its monopoly over narrating the world to us.
169. We shouldn't weep for broke but lying mainstream media
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     A report from the Public Policy Forum of Montreal released on January 26 says the Canadian news industry "is reaching a crisis point as the decline of traditional media, fragmentation of audiences and the rise of fake news pose a growing threat to the health of our democracy." Whereas the 1970 report was entitled "The Uncertain Mirror", the new appeal for support is called "The Shattered Mirror."
170. 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.
171. What 'Democracy' Really Means in U.S. and New York Times Jargon: Latin America Edition
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     One of the most accidentally revealing media accounts highlighting the real meaning of "democracy" in U.S. discourse is a still-remarkable 2002 New York Times Editorial on the U.S.-backed military coup in Venezuela, which temporarily removed that country’s democratically elected (and very popular) president, Hugo Chávez.
172. What is Objective Journalism?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Despite objectivity being widely accepted as a norm in journalism, Edwards discusses how opinion and bias are still an inherent part of 'reporting the facts.'
173. 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.
174. 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.
175. Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
     All the News That's Fit to Slant
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     In Al Jazeera’s early days in the mid and late 1990s, the channel took on taboo subjects and proudly challenged the status quo. In recent months, however, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics.
176. Where's the Beef Stroganoff? Eight Sacrilegious Reflections on Russiagate
     Street, Paul
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Street expresses his frustration with the US political establishment in light of the 2017-2018 FBI investigation into alleged foreign intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.
177. Where's the Evidence?
     The CIA-FBI-NSA report on the hacking of the 2016 election is pure baloney
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     We are told from the outset that the actual evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC and John Podesta's emails as part of a wide-ranging campaign to put Donald Trump in the White House cannot be revealed: "source and methods" must be kept secret. This in spite of DNI director James Clapper's pledge that he would declassify as much of the evidence as possible in the interests of transparency: but then again, Clapper is an admitted liar.
178. Who Should Bomb Iran First?
     The Myth Of Left-Leaning Media Bias
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Mainstream media discussions of media balance are limited to a single question: Is the media too critical of powerful interests?
179. Why Are We The Good Guys?
     Reclaiming Your Mind From The Delusions Of Propaganda
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2012
     One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement. But the prevailing view is that the West is essentially a force for good in the wider world. Why Are We The Good Guys? is a provocative challenge of this false ideology.
180. Why Are We The Good Guys? - Book Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that ‘we’ are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement. But the prevailing view is that 'the West' is essentially a force for good in the wider world. Why Are We The Good Guys? is a provocative challenge to this false ideology.
181. Why is the New York Times promoting the "black bloc"?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     A New York Times article, which ran across four columns of the newspaper's front page under a huge photo of a black-masked individual preparing to break an office building window with an iron bar during Wednesday night's protests at the University of California, Berkeley, amounted to free publicity and promotion of the violent protests organized by elements identifying themselves as the "black bloc," anti-fascists and anarchists.
182. Why is the West praising Malala, but ignoring Ahed?
     Is an empowered Palestinian girl not worthy of Western feminist admiration?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Khoja-Moolji examines the lack of media response to the plight of 16 year-old Ahed Tamimi, detained for allegedly assaulting an Israeli soldier during a confrontation at her home during which Israeli soldiers shot a fourteen-year-old child.
183. Why Won't American Media Tell the Truth About What's Happening in Venezuela?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Unlike Brazil and Argentina, Venezuela has been victimized by a number of factors outside of its control, but especially a precipitous drop in the price of oil, the country's main source of revenue.
184. Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press
     Documents Show NYT and Washington Post Shilling for US Government on Iran Missile "Threat"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     A key Wikileaks document which should have resulted in stories calling into question the thrust of the Obama administration's ballistic missile defense policy in Europe based on an alleged Iranian missile threat has instead produced a spate of stories buttressing anti-Iran hysteria.
185. Women Are Not Wallpaper
     Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli interview filmmaker Erik Gandini
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Something new is appearing on the Italian screen. About time, some may say.
186. World Orders Old and New
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1994
     Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
187. Wretched US Journalism on Ukraine
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     The most dangerous violation of journalistic principles has occurred in the Ukraine crisis, which has the potential of a nuclear war.
188. The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2018
     The Wrong Story lays bare the flaws in the way large media organizations present the Palestine–Israel issue. It points out major fallacies in the fundamental conceptions that underpin their coverage, namely that Palestinians and Israelis are both victims to comparable extents and are equally responsible for the failure to find a solution; that the problem is "extremists," often religiously-motivated ones, who need to be sidelined in favour of “moderates”; and that Israel’s uses of force are typically justifiable acts of self-defense.
     Weaving together the existing literature with new insights, Shupak offers an up-to-date and tightly focused guide that exposes the distorted way these issues are presented and why each is misguided.
189. 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.
190. The Yellow Journal
     Issue #4 - July 25, 1974
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1974
     Articles on Anatomy of a News Empre; [Toronto] Sun inspires fear; How newspapers make mistakes; Press comments on election coverage; the Davey Report.
191. The Yellow Journal
     Issue 5 - August 1974
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1974
     Articles on Stereotypes in the Dailies; Getting to the heart of housing; Kenora Occupiers Supported; Media coverage of a raid on Rochdale College; In Defence of Patronage;

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