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The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy, and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision Making, Degrade Our Democracy, and Put Our Country and Our World in Peril
by Al Gore  
Powells.com Staff Pick More astute and timely observations from my favorite candidate who isn't running for President. Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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Sportswriter (86 Edition)
by Richard Ford
Powells.com Staff Pick At the beginning of The Sportswriter, Richard Ford opens with the issues with which his novel will be most concerned: a man, his work, his home and sense of place, his relationship with family, and his expectation of "the good life." Frank Bascombe is...
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Media Control the Spectacular 2ND Edition
by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Chomsky's classic back-pocket primer on U.S. government propaganda and media bias, now available in an edition expanded to include his comments regarding media coverage of terrorism and U.S. foreign policy in a post-September 11 world....
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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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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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Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments This is an essential introduction to the "propaganda model" of media analysis. Chomsky offers a message of hope, reminding us that resistance is possible, necessary and effective....
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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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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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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. McChesney...
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The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
by Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda Publisher Comments The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing literary journalism back to such pioneers as Defoe, Dickens, Orwell, and to crime writers, investigative social reporters, and war correspondents who stretched the limits of style and even propriety to...
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Heaven Is a Playground ((Rev)04 Edition)
by Rick Telander Publisher Comments In 1974 Rick Telander intended to spend a few days doing a magazine piece on the court wizards of Brooklyn's Foster Park. He ended up staying the entire summer, becoming part of the players' lives, and eventually the coach of a loose aggregation known as...
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Writer's Digest Handbook of Magazine Article Writing (2ND 05 Edition)
by Michelle (ed.) Ruberg Publisher Comments This book is the writer's treasure map to the lucrative field of magazine writing!...
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Melvin Mencher's News Reporting and Writing (11TH 08 Edition)
by Melvin Mencher Publisher Comments More than a quarter of a million students have learned the craft and ethics of journalism from Melvin Mencher's News Reporting and Writing. This classic text shows students the fundamentals of reporting and writing and examines the values that direct and...
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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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Gender, Race, and Class in Media : a Text-reader (2ND 03 Edition)
by Gail Dines Publisher Comments Second edition....
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Levels of the Game (69 Edition)
by John Mcphee Publisher Comments This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description...
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Inside Reporting : a Practical Guide To the Craft of Journalism (07 Edition)
by Tim Harrower Publisher Comments This text does for reporting what Tim Harrower's The Newspaper Designer's Handbook has previously done for design: make it fun and accessible to newcomers. Harrower is an award-winning editor, designer and columnist who has previously taught at Portland...
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Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion (06 Edition)
by Garth S. Jowett Publisher Comments Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays is a unique, interdisciplinary collection that brings together contemporary and classic readings to provide significant insights into the practice and theory of propaganda and persuasion. The...
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Racism, Sexism, and the Media : the Rise of Class Communication in Multicultural America (3RD 03 Edition)
by Clint C. Wilson Publisher Comments Racial and ethnic inclusiveness has grown to be more important in the Untied States as its society has become increasingly diverse. Racism, Sexism, and the Media: The Rise of Class Communication in Multicultural America, Third Edition examines how people...
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