Communication, Power, and MediaNova 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. |
Contents
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GEORGE SELDES AND THE LORDS OF THE PRESS | 14 |
OTHERS | 18 |
SUMMARY | 19 |
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 |
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