| Description |
xii, 328 p. ; 23 cm. |
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Media & culture (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 2
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction : The illiberal media -- The market system versus freedom of expression -- Market system constraints on freedom of expression -- The propaganda model -- The deepening market in the west : commercial broadcasting on the march -- The media megamergers -- News values, news papers, news shapers -- The politics of newsworthiness -- All the news fit to print (part 1) : structure and background of the New York Times -- All the news fit to print (part 2) : biases and propaganda service in covering foreign affairs -- All the news fit to print (part 3) : the Vietnam War -- The Wall Street Journal as propaganda agency -- The inky and me : a study in market driven journalism -- David Broder and the limits of mainstream liberalism -- Media coverage of foreign and domestic policy -- The media's role in U.S. foreign policy : the Persian Gulf War -- Legitimization by fraudulent elections -- NAFTA, Mexican meltdown, and the propaganda system -- Carlos and Posada : their terrorists and ours -- Suharto : the fall of a good genocidist -- Corporate junk science in the media -- Propaganda and democracy -- The propaganda model revisited -- Postmodernism and the active audience -- Word tricks and propaganda -- Toward a democratic media. |
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Mass media -- Political aspects.
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Mass media -- Economic aspects.
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Mass media -- Objectivity.
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Liberalism.
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Journalism -- Objectivity.
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Journalistic ethics.
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New York times.
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Wall Street journal.
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Philadelphia inquirer.
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| ISBN |
0820441864 (pbk.) |
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