- 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.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
- 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.
- 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
- Free speech for me - you shut up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
- Lies The Media Tell us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
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