Inventing reality: the politics of news media. / Michael Parenti.
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TextPublisher: Belmont: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 1993Edition: 2nd edDescription: x, 274 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 0312020139 (pbk.) :; 0312086296 (clothbound) :Subject(s): Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States | Journalism -- United States -- ObjectivityDDC classification: 302.23/0973 LOC classification: PN4888.P6.P37 | Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Subtitle of earlier ed. (c1986) varies: The politics of the mass media.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-254) and index.
Contents: From Cronkite's complaint to Orwell's oversight -- Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one -- Who controls the news? -- Objectivity and government manipulation -- The big sell -- Giving labor the business -- "Liberal" media, conservative bias -- The Media fight the red menace -- Doing the third world -- For the new world order -- Propaganda themes -- Methods of misrepresentation -- Culture, control and resistance --
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