Winner of the 2007 Book
Award from the
International Institute for Advanced Studies in
Systems Research and Cybernetics
Understanding
how media shape our thinking about social issues, and
believing that our limited direct experiences leave
us vulnerable to the duplicity and disinformation of
the corporate media, James Winter records example
after example--from corporate owners, managers,
advertisers, and journalists themselves--of the use,
misuse, and abuse of information.
Detailed
case studies include: CanWest Global firing writers
and even a publisher; the bias against workers and
labour unions; environmentalists portrayed as cult
members, or eco- zealots (partly because eight of the
ten largest corporations in the world are involved in
either gas and oil production and sales, or
automobile production); Big Pharma and the role of
MDs, medical professors, and the media as drug
pushers; the news media's role as cheerleaders for
Canada's war in Afghanistan and the U.S. war in Iraq;
and how corporate globalization combines military and
economic invasions, with a devastating account of
what really happened in Haïti.
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Table of Contents
JAMES WINTER is one of
Canada's most knowledgeable media critics. He is a
professor of communication studies at the University
of Windsor and author of MediaThink
(2002), Democracy's Oxygen: How
Corporations Control the News
(1997), and Common Cents: Media
Portrayal of the Gulf War and Other Events (1992).
He is also a contributor to Radical
Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy
(2005), Filtering the News:
Essays on Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model
(2005), and Bound by Power:
Intended Consequences (2006)
(all published by Black Rose Books).
312
pages, 6x9, index
Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-252-2 $25.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-253-0 $53.99
Mass Media &
Communications/Media Literacy
May
2007
