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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky  
Publisher Comments In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their...
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Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
by Dahr Jamail
Powells.com Staff Pick George Orwell once said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." No one has captured that revolutionary spirit more than Dahr Jamail. Jamail, like all of us, heard the lies the media was spewing to justify the U.S....
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The Conservative Resurgence and the Press: The Media's Role in the Rise of the Right (Medill Visions of the American Press)
by James Bri Mcpherson Synopsis Consumers of American media find themselves in a news world that has shifted toward more conservative reporting. This book takes a measured, historical view of the shift, addressing factors that include the greater skill with which conservatives have...
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Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
by Mark Kramer Publisher Comments Inspiring stories and practical advice from America's most respected journalists The country's most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard's Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their...
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Rum Diary (98 Edition)
by Hunter S. Thompson Publisher Comments Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Exuberant and...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick When Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library in 1925, its mission was ? and still is ? to provide attractive, hardcover editions of important works of literature and thought to serious readers on a budget. The Modern Library became...
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Convergence Culture (06 Edition)
by Henry Jenkins Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award The standard convergence narrative of recent years presents media concentration as a threat both to the...
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UnSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson Publisher Comments Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media–once the vaunted watchdogs of our republic–are often too timid or distracted to identify...
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Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice : Images, Realities and Policies (3RD 07 Edition)
by Ray Surette Publisher Comments Become a critical media consumer with MEDIA, CRIME, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE! With the rise of media's role in reporting crime and using crime as entertainment, the importance of the interplay between the mass media news and entertainment systems and the...
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Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg (Vintage)
by Rick Bragg Publisher Comments With his bestselling All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg gave us memorable stories of his own childhood. In Somebody Told Me, he offers the best of his work as a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist writing the remarkable stories of others. <BR>For...
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Journalist and the Murderer (90 Edition)
by Janet Malcolm Publisher Comments In two previous books, Janet Malcolm explored the hidden sides of, respectively, institutional psychoanalysis and Freudian biography. In this book, she examines the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger...
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Writings From the New Yorker 1925-1976
by E. B. White Publisher Comments Beautifully written, full of vitality, humor, love of life, and the free spirit, these short pieces are classics meant to be read and re-read with great delight. "There of the country's great literary treasures".--New York Times....
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The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks 1641-1649
by Joad Raymond Publisher Comments The first newsbooks, the direct predecessors of modern newspapers, appeared in 1641, yet the reasons for their appearance have never been fully understood. In this book, Raymond charts the development of the English newsbook from its origins to its...
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Propaganda (05 Edition)
by Edward Bernays Publisher Comments "Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies."-Noam Chomsky<P>"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the...
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The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America
by Robert Scheer Publisher Comments In the course of his forty-year-career as one of America's most admired journalists, Robert Scheer's work has been praised by Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion, who deems him one of the best reporters of our time. Now, Scheer brings a lifetime of...
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Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite
by Bernard Goldberg Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bias exposes the culture of narrow-minded elitism in the media — and reveals what must be done to change it. In December of 2001, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg charged the mainstream...
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Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
by Bernard Goldberg Publisher Comments In 1996, veteran CBS News reporter and producer Bernie Goldberg committed the unpardonable sin of publicly mentioning the issue of liberal bias in the media. For that he became persona non grata at CBS. Goldberg tells how friends and colleagues turned on...
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Into the Buzzsaw Revised & Expanded Edition
by Kristina Borjesson
Publisher Comments Writing in riveting detail about their personal experiences with corporate efforts to kill their controversial stories and their careers, nearly two dozen print and TV journalists present devastating essays about the dangerous state of American...
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Age of Propaganda : the Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion (Rev 00 Edition)
by Anthony Pratkanis Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-397) and index....
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All I Did Was Ask
by Terry Gross
Publisher Comments "I'm Terry Gross and this is Fresh Air" Originating from WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and heard on more than 450 NPR stations, "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" has become a daily habit with millions of listeners nationwide — a must for anyone hoping to...
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