Media books Media books Adventures in a TV Nation is a book by American author and film director Michael Moore and his producer and wife Kathleen Glynn. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adventures In A TV Nation"
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business ( 1985), is a controversial book by Neil Postman in which he criticized the television industry for presenting serious issues as a form of entertainment. The book originated with Postman's delivering a talk to the Frankfurt Booksellers Convention in 1984. He was participating in a panel on Orwell's 1984 and the contemporary world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amusing Ourselves to Death"
Areopagitica: A speech of Mr John Milton for the liberty of unlicenced printing to the Parliament of England is a prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War. Milton's Areopagitica is titled after a speech written by the Athenian orator Isocrates in the 5th century BC. (The Areopagus is a hill in Athens, the site of real and mythical tribunals. Isocrates hoped to restore the Council of the Areopagus.) Like Isocrates, Milton had no intention of delivering his speech verbally. Instead it was distributed via pamphlet, defying the same publication censorship he argued against. ...more on Wikipedia about "Areopagitica"
Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing Is Turning America Into a One-Party State (ISBN 1585423424) is a book by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy. It was published in 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "Banana Republicans"
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News is a book by Bernard Goldberg, formerly of CBS, giving detailed examples of what he claims to be "liberal bias" in television news reporting. Goldberg asserts that this bias is so pervasive that "liberals" are blind to to it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bias (book)"
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative (ISBN 1400047285) is a 2002 book written by former conservative journalist David Brock detailing his departure from the conservative movement. It is also the story of his coming out as a gay man. In the book, he recounts visiting gay bars with Matt Drudge and other conservatives. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blinded by the Right"
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace ( 2000) is a book by Lawrence Lessig. ...more on Wikipedia about "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace"
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Dude, Where's My Country? is a book by Michael Moore dealing with corporate and political events in the United States. The title is a takeoff of the 2000 teenager movie Dude, Where's My Car?. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dude, Where's My Country?"
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity ( 2004) is a book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license ( by-nc 1.0 ) on March 25, 2004. The printed version of the book was published by Penguin Books under full copyright. ...more on Wikipedia about "Free Culture"
Journalistic Fraud: How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted is a book by Bob Kohn with a thesis similar to that of Bernard Goldberg's Bias. ...more on Wikipedia about "Journalistic Fraud"
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right is a book of political commentary and satire by comedian and political commentator Al Franken, published in 2003 by Dutton, a subsidiary in the Penguin Group. It was written with the help of a group of fourteen volunteer Harvard students known as "Team Franken." The book's subtitle is an ironic parody of FOX News' tagline " Fair and Balanced". Fox sued Franken over the use of the phrase in a short-lived lawsuit that is frequently credited with increasing the sales of the book. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them"
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, first published in 1988. ...more on Wikipedia about "Manufacturing Consent"
Necessary Illusions is a book by Noam Chomsky about how political power uses propaganda to distort and distract from real issues to maintain confusion and complicity, preventing real democracy from becoming effective. Like many of the titles by Chomsky, such as Pirates and Emperors the themes come from such titles as St. Augustine's City of God and Manufacturing Consent by Walter Lippmann, the title of this book borrows a phrase from an earlier political commentary; in this case, Chomsky quotes from the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr. ...more on Wikipedia about "Necessary Illusions"
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, a book written by Canadian journalist Naomi Klein, first appeared in January 2000. ...more on Wikipedia about "No Logo"
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Public Opinion is a book on media and democracy by Walter Lippmann. Among other things, it argues that "the manufacture of consent" amounts to "a revolution" in "the practice of democracy" because it allows the elites essentially to control the mind of the public. This, he argues, is useful and necessary because "the common interests" – the general concerns of all people – elude the public and so must be the domain of what he called a "specialized class". ...more on Wikipedia about "Public Opinion"
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations is a 1996 book by liberal author and comedian Al Franken. It is satirically critical of right-wing political figures, such as Bob Dole, Phil Gramm, Newt Gingrich, and particularly radio host Rush Limbaugh. Franken often makes his points through humor, including the use of graphs with his handwriting superimposed over them. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations"
The Future of Ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world ( 2001) is a book by Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford Law School, who is well known as a critic of the extension of the copyright term in US. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Future of Ideas"
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, a book by Jean Baudrillard, is a translation of 3 essays published in Liberation between January and March 1991. Contrary to the provocative title, the author does believe that the events and violence of the ' Gulf War' actually took place. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place"
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (University of Toronto Press) is a 1962 book by Marshall McLuhan. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Gutenberg Galaxy"
The Hidden Persuaders is a book by Vance Packard, first published in 1957 (ISBN 0671531492). ...more on Wikipedia about "The Hidden Persuaders"
The Republican Noise Machine is a book written by David Brock which chronicles how the right wing was able to build their vast media infrastructure. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Republican Noise Machine" Things go better with shortopedia.
We the Media is a book written by Dan Gillmor, published in 2004 by O'Reilly (ISBN 0596007337). It is also available for free online, under a Creative Commons license. ...more on Wikipedia about "We the Media"
What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News ( 2003, ISBN 0465001769) is a book by liberal columnist Eric Alterman that challenges the widespread conservative belief in a liberal media bias. Based on detailed research, Alterman concludes that the media have neither a neutral nor liberal bias. The Los Angeles Times, in its review, called the novel, "A well-documented, even-tempered and witty answer, I might say antidote, to such toxic recent bestsellers as Bernard Goldberg's 'Bias.'" ** Some observers have pointed to this and similar media commentary regarding What Liberal Media? and its ideological counterparts as, ironically, further evidence for the presence of a liberal slant. The term 'antidote' in the Times article seems to suggest that the existence of contrarian publications is akin to the presence of a disease, demanding some cure or innoculation. ...more on Wikipedia about "What Liberal Media?"
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