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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
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UnSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
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Medium Is the Massage : an Inventory of Effects (96 Edition)
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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Elements of Journalism : What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect (01 Edition)
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Art and Propaganda in Twentieth Century : the Political Image in the Age of Mass Culture - a Perspectives Book (97 Edition)
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Inside Reporting : a Practical Guide To the Craft of Journalism (07 Edition)
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Censored: The Top 25 Censored Stories (Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News -- The Year's Top 25 Ceensored Stories)
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The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
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A Guide to Graphic Print Production
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Into the Buzzsaw Revised & Expanded Edition
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Age of Propaganda : the Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion (Rev 00 Edition)
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Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
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Annual Editions : Mass Media 07 / 08 (14TH 08 Edition)
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History of News (3RD 06 Edition)
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The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
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Boys on the Bus (73 Edition)
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Tuned Out : Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the News (05 Edition)
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Introduction To Mass Communication Media LI 5TH Edition
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Media and the American Mind : From Morse To Mcluhan (83 Edition)
by Daniel J. Czitrom Publisher Comments In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as...
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