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Title: Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media by Martin A. Lee, Norman Solomon, Edward Asner ISBN: 0-8184-0561-9 Publisher: Lyle Stuart Hardcover Pub. Date: August, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: useful guide to analyzing media at the institutional level
Comment: This book carefully in no nonsense language, analyzes the media bias and the institution of the media and how it operates and how the final product gets aired on news televison or in print. This along with Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky is a must if people want to know the truth about the media
Rating: 1
Summary: Unreliable Writing!
Comment: First, I was surprised to find out that the media is as conservative and Republican as it apparently is. One would certainly not guess it from the reporting that is done. And what was really lacking in this book was any kind of even handed approach to bias in the news. I'd grant that there is bias towards the right in some reporting. But by reading this book you'd think that there was only far-right leaning reporting only with nary a lean to the left in any news reports.
One point raised by the authors more than once was the use in news reports of unnamed sources and few hand-picked named "expert" sources. But throughout their diatribe against the right-wing controlled media they used many of these same techniques with many an unnamed source as well as the (over)use of a small number of "expert" sources used to prove their points.
I was truly looking for a book that helped in understanding and, as they say, detecting biases in the news media. What I came away with in this book was that it was written by some far left wing fanatics (should have guessed based on the foreword being written by Ed Asner) who did not want to give a balanced treatment to this topic (who but someone like Asner could have guessed that the NY Times is really a Republican mouthpiece!)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Very Important Book!
Comment: This is one of the single most thought provoking books I've ever read. It provides the reader with a real behind the curtain look at the media and politics. This is a must read for every American!
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Title: The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media: Decoding Spin and Lies in Mainstream News by Norman Solomon, Tom Tomorrow, Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 1567511546 Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry by John C. Stauber, Sheldon Rampton ISBN: 1567510604 Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0375714499 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News by Norman Solomon, Jeff Cohen ISBN: 156751118X Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You by Norman Solomon, Reese Erlich, Howard Zinn, Sean Penn ISBN: 1893956393 Publisher: Context Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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