1. AMARC welcomes bill limiting media concentration
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   AMARC's Latin America and Caribbean office (AMARC-ALC) has welcomed a bill on Audiovisual Communication Services and the government's openness to a participatory process of forums on the suggested text.
2. Between the Lines
   How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   
3. Canwest latest #media giant# to exploit news operations
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they#ve deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it#s not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
4. The Cultural Industries in Canada
   Problems, Policies and Prospects
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
5. EFJ Hails "Momentous Success" in Italian Demonstration for "Right to Know. Duty to Inform"
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The European Federation of Journalists, along with other organisations organised one of the biggest recent demonstrations in Rome this weekend under the theme â#oRight to Know. Duty to Informâ##, in cooperation with other unions and civil society.
6. From Politics to Profit
   The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
7. Inventing Reality
   The Politics of News Media
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1993
   Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
8. Manufacturing Consent
   The Political Economy of the Mass Media
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
9. The Missing News
   Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
10. Newspeak in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
11. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
12. The Press and the Cold War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
13. Seriously Free Speech Committee
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
14. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
15. Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
16. Yesterday's News
    Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
17. Barrie Zwicker
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    

Experts on Media Ownership/Concentration of in the Sources Directory

1. Seriously Free Speech Committee
2. Barrie Zwicker