harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai) (06/06/91)
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H o w a n d W h y t h e A m e r i c a n N e w s M e d i a
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Unreliable Sources: A Guide to
Detecting Bias in News Media
by Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon
"Unreliable Sources gives a rundown of some of the
most important news stories you didn't hear about over the
past decade...stories that were effetively made unavail-
able to the average citizen..
"Today, when the media are as big a part of the story as
the story itelf, you're not truly informed unless you're up
on the media as well. This book is an excellent place to
start." -- from the Foreword by Edward Asner
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"A worthy addition to the library of any student of
American news media, social structure and political science."
-- Washington Post
"An invaluable service to those convinced that an uncritical approach
to the media is more hazardous than it is comfortable."
-- Pat Aufderheide, In These Times
"Committed, eloquent writing that plumbs the psychological and
political complexities of mass-mediated experience."
-- San Francisco Chronicle
"An essential text."
-- Utne Reader
"A much-needed consumer's guide for people who find the standard news
detached from the events and issues that reflect their needs."
-- Ben Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly
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Martin A. Lee is the publisher of Extra!, the joumal of FAIR (Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting) and author of Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and
the Sixties Rebellion. Norman Solomon, a FAIR advisory board member,
is co-author of Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience
with Atomic Radiation. Hardcover, 320 pages. Illustrated with news
photos, headlines and captions. Only $19.95. Carol Publishing
Group/A Lyle Stuart Book
To order by Visa or MasterCard, call 1-800-447-BOOK
Or write,
Carol publishing Group, Dept. IN, 120 Enerprise Avenue, Secaucus, NJ 07094
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See also some relevant archived ACTIV-L files, notably
CENSORED PROJ1989 Project Censored top 10 stories of 1989
CENSORED PROJ1990 Project Censored top 10 stories of 1990
by using the GET command (on the file name CENSORED PROJ1989
and on the file CENSORED PROJ1990).
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To get a file named FILE NAME from the
archiver (files are two words separa-
ted by a space), send the 1-line message
GET FILE NAME ACTIV-L
to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
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Use the GET command with ACTIV-L ARCHIVE for a file listing the files
available with the archiver. See especially the "Media/propaganda"
section, which includes several of FAIR's reports, e.g. on NightLine
and McNeil/Lehrer, or on the Panama invasion ("The Media Goes to War:
How Television Sold the Panama Invasion")
FAIR can be reached at
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting)
130 W. 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212)633-6700
or electronically: "fair" on PeaceNet