Communication, Power, and Media

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Nova Publishers, 2004 - 168 pages
The communication potential of contemporary mass media is immense. It can communicate with us about the entire world and it can stimulate and inspire us with entertainment. The realisation of this potential has been frustrated by interrelated networks of people who have controlled major media over the last century. Those interests see media as a means to control and manipulate people rather than as a means to inform and inspire people. The approach in this book moves beyond the abstractions and systems approaches often used in criticisms of media to an analysis focused on the concrete groups that dominate media. These groups do constitute a system, but one that must be understood in its terms of all of its historical features -- economic, political, and social.

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Contents

THE ESTABLISHMENT AGENDA AND MAJOR MEDIA
79
THE FREE TRADE AGENDA AND THE IMF
84
THE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY
87
A LESS DEMOCRATIC AND PLURALISTIC NATION
88
LABOR UNIONS
89
THE SHIFT TO POSTINDUSTRIALISM
90
SCIENTISTS
91
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
93

THE MORGANROCKERFELLER GROUP
21
SINS OMISSION
25
NEUTRALITY OBJECTIVITY PROFESSIONALISM
29
THE NEW YORK TIMES AND BIAS
32
DECADENCE VIOLENCE AND NONSENSE
43
CALCUTTS INSIGHTS
44
VIOLENCE
48
PORNOGRAPHY
52
DECADENCE AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT
57
ROME
58
WEIMAR
59
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF?
61
THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND SELFCENSORSHIP
64
CENSORSHIP AND DECADENCE
65
GLOBALISM MEDIA AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
69
THE POLITICS OF GLOBALISM
74
MEDIA AND GLOBALISM
76
THE ANGLOAMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT AND ITS AGENDA
77
THE PACIFICATION AND SUBORDINATION OF GOVERNMENT
94
MANIPULATION AND MEDIA
99
MANIPULATING THE PUBLICS OPINIONS
100
THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MODERN COMMUNICATIONS THEORY
105
WHAT THE ESTABLISHMENT IS PROVIDING
108
THE FIRST OF THE CRITICS
113
THE FIRST OF THE CRITICS?
114
FREEDOM AND THE PRESS
115
POWER AND PRESS
117
GIVING POWER THE NUMBERS
118
CONCLUSION
121
ITS AN OLIGARCHY
127
BIG BUSINESS RUNS THE SHOW
131
SO WHAT KIND OF BIAS IS IT?
137
CONCLUSION
145
BIBLIOGRAPHY
147
INDEX
159
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