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  1. 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.
  2. Between the Lines
    How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  3. Canwest latest ‘media giant’ to exploit news operations
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they’ve 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 it’s not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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?
  8. Newspeak in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
  9. 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.
  10. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Barrie Zwicker
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization

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