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Interview with media analyst about effect of corporate media ownership, using tobacco issue as
example. From PBS Frontline.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/bagdikian1.html
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A New Years's Resolution For The Right
Conservative commentators Brent Bozell and Michael Medved contend that a challenge for the right is
overcoming the fact that television's emotional nature inherently favors liberals rather than the
logic of conservatism.
https://secure.mediaresearch.org/columns/news/col19981229.html
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McChesney's
Article that critcizes the effect of commercial corporate media on society, and that calls for
reform that brings diversity of ownership and access. By Robert McChesney from The Boston Review.
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR23.3/mcchesney.html
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Consent, American Style
Analysis and commentary by Steve Mizrach about manipulation of the public through the media. Based
on views of Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, and Ben Bagdikian.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/seeker1/cyberanthro/consent.html
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The End of Public Television? The Trouble with Teletubbies
Article critical of PBS as having lost its public service mandate because of its reliance on
corporate funding. Uses children's programming as an example. By Susan E. Linn and Alvin F.
Poussaint from The American Prospect.
http://epn.org/prospect/44/44linn.html
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Tabloids, Talk Radio, and the Future of News
Technology's Impact on Journalism by Annenberg Senior Fellow Ellen Hume
http://www.annenberg.nwu.edu/pubs/tabloids/default.htm
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Bloodbath in the District of Columbia
An essay from UnquietMind.com about the destructiveness of the Washington scandal culture.
http://unquietmind.com/bloodbath.html
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Chris's News and Views
Media analysis and criticism from a former TV news anchor, reporter and meteorologist. Also
includes links to media research groups and organizations committed to creating a more democratic,
citzen-based media environment.
http://members.tripod.com/chris.shumway/
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Meditations on Media -- Jane W. Prettyman
An independent critique of commercial media's effects on democracy and society by editor of the
Real News Pages website.
http://www.rain.org/~openmind//jane.htm
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Necessary Illusions -- Online Book by Noam Chmosky
Commentaries contend the "free press" serves the needs of those in power, rather than
free speech and democracy.
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/ni/ni-contents.html
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Hold On to Your Phone Bill -- It's Merger Time
Commentary on lack of FCC concern about the effects of consolidation of telephone and broadcasting
services on consumer interests and democracy. From Mother Jones.
http://www.motherjones.com/fotc/fotc6.html
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The Television Thing
This article summarizes The Sound Bite Society, a study of television and ideology. (Dissent Summer
1995) By Jeffery Scheuer
http://www.jscheuer.com/dissent.htm
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Tough Chat
Commentary contending that liberals aren't as visible and efffective on TV talk shows as
conservatives, because of the complexity of liberal positions. Joshua Micah Marshall, The American
Prospect
http://epn.org/prospect/40/40marsnf.html
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