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Censored 2012: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2010-2011 (Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News -- The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories) by Mickey Huff Publisher Comments Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation’s oldest news-monitoring group—a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media by Brooke Gladstone Publisher Comments Nearly one million weekly listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the distortions and complexities of the modern media. This brilliant radio personality now bursts onto the page as an illustrated character in vivid comics drawn by... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making & Unmaking by Todd Gitlin Publisher Comments New preface for this classic of media studies. One of the founders of SDS describes the response of the various news organizations and arrives at the way the New Left came to be characterized.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg Publisher Comments In his nearly thirty years at CBS News, Emmy Award winner Bernard Goldberg earned a reputation as one of the preeminent reporters in the television news business. When he looked at his own industry, however, he saw that the media far too often ignored... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media by Brooke Gladstone Publisher Comments A million listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the complexities of the modern media. Bursting onto the page in vivid comics by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld, this brilliant radio personality guides us through two millennia of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-first Century by Robert W. McChesney Publisher Comments The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media by Juan Gonzalez Publisher Comments Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America's racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country's... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century by Anya Schiffrin Synopsis As the recent U.S. financial crisis unfolded, journalists struggled to keep up with the biggest story of the century. When the markets unraveled and the economy began spiraling downward, reporters raced to cover an unfamiliar cast of characters and an... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Australian Television and International Mediascapes by Stuart Cunningham Publisher Comments This book addresses current debates about globalisation and culture by tracing the emergence of Australia as a significant exporter of television to the world market.... (read more) List Price $126.25 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else by Associated Press Publisher Comments The Associated Press throws open its archives and invites readers into its news bureaus and out into the field to witness first hand its groundbreaking reporting that made the AP the worlds largest news organization.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture by Douglas Rushkoff Publisher Comments Examines media and popular culture issues, including childrens' television, MTV, the O.J. Simpson trial, and alternative... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby by Bill Sloan Publisher Comments This entertaining history of America's supermarket tabloids offers a behind-the-scenes look at the intriguing world of tabloid journalism, and especially the unique personalities that made it a successful and influential force in today's media... (read more) List Price $28.98 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 2 (Voices from the Underground) by Ken Wachsberger Publisher Comments This enlightening book offers a collection of histories of underground papers from the Vietnam Era as written and told by key staff members of the time. Their stories, building on those presented in Part 1, represent a wide range of publications... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate (Counterpunch) by Alexander Cockburn Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Journalism Studies. We can no longer trust that our journalists are reporting the news without underlying corporate or governmental agendas. The US government deregulates radio and right-wing Clear Channel gobbles up available... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-Hour News Cycle by Howard Rosenberg Publisher Comments An eviscerating look at the state of journalism in the age of the 24 hour news cycle by a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic and a veteran news correspondent. No Time To Think focuses on the insidious and increasing portion of the news media that... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Sage Criminal Justice System Annuals #13: The Dissident Press: Alternative Journalism in American History by Lauren Kessler Synopsis Kessler challenges the idea that the worlds of media and journalism have ever conformed to a 'free marketplace' image. This present volume investigates a handful of the many fringe groups who, denied access to the mainstream, started marketplaces of... (read more) List Price $77.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Truth to Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself: Notes from My White House Education by Lanny J. Davis Publisher Comments On a November afternoon in 1996, Lanny Davis got a phone call that would change his life. It was from a top aide at the White House, asking him if he was interested in joining the president's senior staff. Within a few short weeks he had signed on as... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Mediated: How the Media Shapes Our World and the Way We Live in It by Thomas De Zengotita Publisher Comments In this utterly original look at our modern “culture of performance,” de Zengotita shows how media are creating self-reflective environments, custom made for each of us. From Princess Dianas funeral to the prospect of mass terror, from oral... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Introducing Media Studies (Introducing...) by Ziauddin Sardar Publisher Comments A vital addition to Icon's highly successful and expanding series of Introducing books on sociological subjects.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role in the Fate of the World by Maria Armoudian Synopsis This in-depth examination of the media will make readers aware of the medias power to help or harm and underscores the role that we all play in fostering a media climate that cultivates a greater sense of humanity and cooperation.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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