Inventing reality : the politics of news media
Looks at the role of the print and electronic media in defining "respectable" political discourse in the United States. From a critical perpective, Parenti looks at the economics and politics of "presenting" the news and argues that the media systematically distort the news.
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From Cronkite's Complaint to Orwell's Oversight - 'Freedom of the Press Belongs to the Man Who Owns One' - Who Controls the News? - Objectivity abd Government Manipulation - The Big Sell - Giving Labour the Business - 'Liberal' Media, Conservative Bias - The Media Fight the Red Menace - Doing the Third World - For the New World Order - Propaganda Themes - Methods of Misrepresentation - Culture, Control, and Resistance - Index - Appendix:A Guide to Alternative Media