1. After the Cataclysm
   Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Right:s)
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1979
   
2. Agreement on terms
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2007
   I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
3. All the news that's fit to miss: blind spots in Canadian reporting (book review)
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2000
   
4. America#s last taboo
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2002
   The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
5. Autonomous Media
   Activating Resistance & Dissent
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
6. The Best Censored Stories of 1989
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Exposing an issue that was otherwise overlooked or under-reported by national news media.
7. The Best Censored Stories of 1989
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1990
   
8. Between the Lines
   How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   
9. Blindspots in The News
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1995
   The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
10. CBC left-wing?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
11. Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
    The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
12. Censored! The news that didn't make the news-and why (book review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
    
13. Chomsky on MisEducation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
14. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
15. Chronicles of Dissent
    Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
16. Confessions of a Media Critic
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    Barrie Zwicker says that with the planet in crisis it isn't time for 'business as usual', least of all in journalism.
17. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
18. 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.
19. Deterring Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
20. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
21. The Encyclopedia of Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
22. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
23. '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.
    
24. 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.
    
25. A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
26. Hidden Agendas: How Journalists Influence the News
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    A right-wing critique of the theory that media owners determine the nature of news coverage. Instead, the authors contend that journalists have the most influence over news coverage, and that journalists tend to be on the left.
27. Hidden Agendas: How journalists influence the news (book review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2004
    
28. In The News
    The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
29. In the News
    The Practice of Media Relations in Canada - 2nd Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    An introduction of media relations in Canada, from both a practical and philosophical approach.
    
30. Introduction to the Media Guide
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
31. 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.
32. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    
33. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
37. Kyrgyzstan's dubious success
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    In Kyrgyzstan, everyone is better off - except for the vast majority of the population.
38. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
39. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
    Resource Type: Book
    
40. The lying silence of those who know
    Holocaust Denied
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    In every war, Israel has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft or more and more land.
41. Manufacturing Consent
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1992
    A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
42. 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.
43. Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
44. The Media and the Politics of Peace (book review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    
45. Media Awareness Network
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
46. Media bias
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
47. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
48. Misrepresented? Hugo Chavez and the Western Media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    An interview with Julia Buxton about Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, and target of concerted criticism in the western media.
49. 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?
50. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
51. Neocon con game: First deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
    Margaret Wente's Chutzpah
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2005
    The neocon con game: first deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
    
52. News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada - Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
53. News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
    Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
54. News media stifle ideas and debate (review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    
55. Newspeak in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
56. One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1988
    'Business' is also about the people who actually work in the offices, factories, and farms, who are so profoundly affected by what happens in the world of capital.
57. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
    
58. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
59. Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
60. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    
61. Project Censored Canada established as America's Censored Newsletter dies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
    
62. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
    
63. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
64. The Sources HotLink
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
65. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
66. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
67. The Star's biased reporting
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    The Star's Orwellian journalism.
68. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
69. Telling It
    Women and Language Across Cutures
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
70. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
71. Ten Best Censored Stories of 1988
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Documenting the failure of the mass media to provide Americans with all the information they need to make informed decisions.
72. 10 Best Censored Stories of 1988
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    
73. Towers of Deception
    The Media Cover-Up of 9/11
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    
74. Tracking the News that Wasn#t
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
75. Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    
76. Truth About Global Warming
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    Review of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, by Ross Gelbspan.
77. Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    If you want to have the first idea what is happening in Israel/Palestine (or most of the rest of the world), the best thing to do would be to turn the Canadian media off completely.
78. 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.
79. Unreliable Sources
    A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
80. War, Peace and the Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
81. 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.
82. 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.
83. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
84. 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.
85. Why does the CBC invariably turn to American experts to explain any issue?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
    Based on what we hear on the CBC, we can only assume that there is an internal policy manual which mandates that all discussions on issues of more than strictly local importance must include at least one American expert.
86. Wizards of Media Oz
    Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    This book is culled from the recent work of Norman Solomon, author of a syndicated "Media Beat" column and Jeff Cohen, founder of media watch-dog Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting.
87. Barrie Zwicker
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    

Experts on Media Bias in the Sources Directory

1. Honest Reporting Canada
2. Media Awareness Network
3. Radical Digressions
4. The Sources HotLink
5. Barrie Zwicker