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  1. Between the Lines
    How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  2. Chronicles of Dissent
    Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  3. The Empire God Built
    Inside Pat Robertson's media machine

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
  4. Expose Yourself!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    A booklet about effective media relations, providing practical advice about getting media coverage and relating to the media.
  5. Kyla Fox, MSW, RSW - Specializes in Eating Disorders
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  6. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
  7. Getting your story into the media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people who make stories interesting and informative.
    For more than 30 years, SOURCES has provided a vital networking service connecting journalists with the sources they need # the experts and spokespersons without whom the media would have no stories to tell.
  8. Helping you reach the media
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
  9. How Sources magnifies your Internet visibility
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    How the high Internet ranking of the Sources Web site helps magnify the public profile of organizations and companies who are listed in Sources.
  10. It Ain't Necessarily So
    How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Looks at the confusion and inaccuracies surrounding media reporting of scientific studies, surveys and statistics.
  11. Journalism: Truth or Dare?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
  12. 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.
  13. Media and Minorities
    Representing Diversity in a Multicultral Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
  14. Newspeak in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
  15. 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.
  16. Politics of Communication
    A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  17. Publicity 101 for Colleges
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Q: What's the best way for a college to get continuing media attention?
    A: By being found in SOURCES, the Media's Guide to Experts and Spokespersons
  18. Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowd
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their work. Being included in SOURCES positions you as a media source and puts you in line to receive more media calls and more media coverage.
  19. The Sources HotLink
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
  20. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
  21. Subliminal Seduction
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  22. Sultans of Sleaze
    Public Relations and the Media

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Reveals the extent to which we have been deceived by public relations firms on behalf of their unscrupulous clients -- the corporations and governments that control our society.
  23. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
  24. Weapons of Mass Persuasion
    Marketing the War Against Iraq

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
  25. What people are saying about Sources
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  26. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.

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