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MISCELLANEOUS

What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream

By Noam Chomsky. From a talk at Z Media Institute June 1997.

http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/chomoct97.htm

The Media Borg wants you

Salon's series on the corporate consolidation of the information industries.

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/26/borg_intro/index.html

Media Reform Information Center

Includes links for media reform groups, articles & books, media monopoly, and more.

http://www.corporations.org/media/

ZNet: Alternative Media Watch

A list of alternative media links from zmag.org

http://www.zmag.org/altmediawatch.htm

ZNet: Watching Mainstream Media

Articles on media from zmag.org

http://www.zmag.org/watching_mainstream_media.htm

FAIR's Women's Desk

Analyses sexism, racism and homophobia in the media and works with activists and media professionals to get a broad range of feminist perspectives included in the public debate.

http://www.fair.org/womens-desk.html

Masking Sexism: The Truth Behind the Center for Media and Public Affairs

An article by Kim McCarten.

http://www.mergemag.org/2002/Jan%2002/publicaffairs.html

Media Channel: Women's Media

Covers issues of women and the media. Includes a list of women's media groups.

http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/womensmedia/

How to Research Front Groups

from PR Watch. Tips for people seeking to research and report on public relations front groups.

http://www.prwatch.org/improp/research_faq.html

Researching Corporations

http://www.corporations.org/research.html

Media Analysis

A list of links from The Nation magazine site. Originally available at:

http://thenation.com/directory/view.mhtml?handle=media_analysis

Herbert Schiller (1919-2000)

Interviews, writings and miscellaneous links pertaining to the media critic.

http://../schiller.html

America the Ignorant

Article by Laura Miller. From Salon.com Sept. 27, 2001.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/27/stupidity/index.html

The Renaissance of Anti-Intellectualism

Article by Todd Gitlin from The Chronicle Review, issue dated December 8, 2000.

http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i15/15b00701.htm

Self-Censorship is Shadowing the New Media Era

Article by Norman Soloman from the FAIR site.

http://www.fair.org/media-beat/000309.html

Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind

Audio excerpts of recordings from two lectures by Noam Chomsky, "Class War: The Attack On Working People" and "Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind," both released by AK Audio.

Manufacturing Consent: Media & Propaganda (compact disk) by Noam Chomsky

Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements Of Propaganda (book) by Noam Chomsky are available for purchase at AK Press.

http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/chomsky_propaganda/

Media violence

Article from Pediatrics, issue dated Nov, 2001. Discusses psychological aspects of violence in mass media in relation to children.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0950/5_108/80221954/print.jhtml

TELEVISION

Kill Your Television

http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/

Television Addiction is No Mere Metaphor

Article by Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in Scientific American, February 2002.

http://www.sciam.com/2002/0202issue/0202kubey.html

Impact of Media on Children and Adolescents: A 10-Year Review of the Research

Article by Susan Villan in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, April 2001. This review synthesizes relevant media research since 1990 regarding the impact of media on children and adolescents. The following specific categories of media were chosen for research review: television and movies, music and rock videos, advertising, video games, and computers and the Internet.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2250/4_40/73278366/print.jhtml

Excerpts From the Book: Four Arguments For The Elimination of Television

By Jerry Mander.

http://www.antipas.org/magazine/tv/4_arguments_book/contents.html

White Dot

International campaign against television, based in Chicago and Brighton.

http://www.whitedot.org/

ORGANIZATIONS

The Center for Media & Democracy

A nonprofit, public interest organization funded by individuals and nonprofit foundations and dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry.

http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/index.html

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)

A national media watch group that provides criticism of media bias and censorship.

http://www.fair.org

Paper Tiger Television

A non-profit volunteer video collective. PTTV works to challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media.

http://www.papertiger.org

MAGAZINES

Extra!

Bimonthly magazine from FAIR.

http://www.fair.org/extra/index.html

PR Watch

A quarterly publication of the Center for Media & Democracy.

http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/index.html

Z Magazine Articles on Media

Various articles specifically related to media from Z Magazine.

http://zena.secureforum.com/Znet/zmag/zarchsearch.cfm?zStartRow=1&queryType=7&Topic1=Media

Articles by Robert McChesney on the Web

From various magazines such as The Nation, In These Times, Lingua Franca, etc.

http://www.robertmcchesney.com/articles.html

BOOKS

Mediastudy Bookstore

A list of books etc. offering a critical perspective on corporate mass media and consumerist culture.

http://www.mediastudy.com/bookstore.html

Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

Read the book by Noam Chomsky online.

http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/ni/ni-contents.html

Excerpts From the Book: Four Arguments For The Elimination of Television

From the book by Jerry Mander.

http://www.antipas.org/magazine/tv/4_arguments_book/contents.html

Robert McChesney: Books

A list of books published by Robert McChesney, author of several books on media and democracy.

http://www.robertmcchesney.com/cv_books.htm