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- AMARC welcomes bill limiting media concentration
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2009 AMARC's Latin America and Caribbean office (AMARC-ALC) has welcomed a bill on Audiovisual Communication Services and the government's openness to a participatory process of forums on the suggested text.
- Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1981
- Canwest latest media giant to exploit news operations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2009 Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but theyve deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper its not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
- The Cultural Industries in Canada
Problems, Policies and Prospects Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
- EFJ Hails "Momentous Success" in Italian Demonstration for "Right to Know. Duty to Inform"
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2009 The European Federation of Journalists, along with other organisations organised one of the biggest recent demonstrations in Rome this weekend under the theme Right to Know. Duty to Inform, in cooperation with other unions and civil society.
- From Politics to Profit
The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920 Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
- The Missing News
Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
- Newspeak in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- The Silent Revolution
Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2009 Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
- Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
- Barrie Zwicker
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
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