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A Popular Guide to Building a Community FM Broadcast Station

T J Enrile

A beginners guide, profusely illustrated, on doing it yourself. From what equipment is needed, to finding a location, to how to build a simple no-tune antenna; then there's the layout, testing a...

Radical Mass Media Criticism

A Cultural Genealogy

John Theobald

Since the beginning of the media age, there have been thinkers who have reacted against the increasing power of the mass media and perceived its ever more pervasive role in historical development....

Filtering the News

Essays on Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model

Jeffrey Klaehn

Herman and Chomsky's "propaganda model" argues that there are five classes of "filters" in society which determine what is news; in other words, what gets printed in newspapers or broadcast by...

True Lies

Stephen Marshall

As mainstream news sources increasingly turn to the lowest common denominator of flag-waving shock jocks, millions of Americans are getting their information about important global issues from...

Our Media, Not Theirs

The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media

Robert W. McChesney

How long until all our media are owned by 2 or 3 megacorporations? Here's a quick accounting of how media concentration is ruining our journalism, politics, entertainment and arts. The dynamic duo...

Horns and Halos

Michael Galinsky

Horns And Halos (2 DVDs) captures the unlikely connection of three men - an ex-con biographer, a janitor turned publisher, and U.S. President George W. Bush - whose paths to power and...

War, Journalism, and the Middle East

Robert Fisk

"...He's like no reporter from the Mideast we get in the McPapers of America."—Greg Palast"As a war correspondent he is unrivaled."—Financial Times"The most...

The Road Map to Nowhere

Israel/Palestine Since 2003

Tanya Reinhart

The Roadmap to Nowhere is a devastating and timely book, essential to understanding the current state of the Israel/Palestine crisis and the propaganda that infects its coverage. Based on...

Should We Burn Babar?

Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories

Herbert Kohl, Jack David Zipes

In "provocative and entertaining essays [that] will appeal to reflective readers, parents, and educators" (Library Journal), one of the country's foremost education writers looks at the...