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Title: Through the Media Looking Glass: Decoding Bias and Blather in the News by Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon ISBN: 1567510485 Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5

Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: This book provides excellent examples of what the news media is all about. Cohen and Solomon explain logically and entertainingly the business of modern media. The book illustrates why, in so many cases, what is not reported is more telling than what is. An invaluable guide to understanding the sound bytes that pass for news.

Rating: 2
Summary: Too brief for real use
Comment: The book is made up of a collection of editorials from FAIR, the public-interest watchdog group. The articles are short and not particularly incisive, and focus on the usual transgressions of America's corporate-owned media. As a reference source Cohen and Solomon's book is not particularly valuable: the articles are simply too brief to provide much useful depth or information. Moreover the groupings lack real coherent unity that follow through on the theme. Still and all, a revisit of Upton Sinclair's struggle against the entrenched wealth of his day (1920's & 30's) provides useful perspective on today's media struggles. And the beat goes on.

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