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Title: The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media: Decoding Spin and Lies in Mainstream News by Norman Solomon, Tom Tomorrow, Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 1-56751-154-6 Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.27 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly Recommended
Comment: As depicted on the cover illustration, Norman Solomon brilliantly shows us how the mass media behaves like submissive monkeys, well-trained by corporate power. The book effectively urges us to be concerned with the consequences of this behavior, particularly with the human rights abuses it fosters.
Rating: 4
Summary: Punctures the phony, puny-minded pablum of mainstream news.
Comment: Solomon, a media analyst with a finely-tuned and raging impatience with mealy-mouthed, corporate-dominated reporting, is the definition of an "anti-pundit." His book punctures the phony, puny-minded pablum that passes for mainstream news. The book starts off with a great satire of what the TV news would look like "if anchors talked straight." Solomon stays right on the mark on a set of important topics: coverage of labor (and the anti-intellectualism in much economics/business reporting), hypocrisy in scandal mongering and human rights and a host of other arenas, racism in reporting, and the right-wing-funded punditocracy. I'm using the book to help my students learn about critical thinking ... and to show them that cultural analysis can be sharp and smart and funny without being obscure!
Rating: 5
Summary: A People's Guide to Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
Comment: Norman Solomon's compilation of media essays analyzing and skewering the corporate media is not just an excellent historical journey, it make us look at ourselves and remember how the corporate media spin stories and successfully deceive a majority of the American people who are seduced by the slickness and gloss of the air brushed barie doll couple inhabiting the surreal world of the media and those behind the scenes, like the Wizard of Oz, who control what Americans see and read.
One of the best essays was one titled "Orwellian Logic 101" in
which Solomon defines terms currently adrift in the media universe and what they really mean. Terms such as terrorist, propaganda effort and responsible journalism.
Solomon's compilation is an excellent opportunity to awaken oneself from the media induced sleep which is too easily entered and from which it is difficult to awaken.
Solomon practices the important notion of viewing the world not as one thinks it ought to be but how it really is--full of lying politicians, seducers, PR men, and media sycophants who willingly and cheerfully participate as U.S. government spokesman and flag waving supporters for global hegemony supporting without question or critique American foreign policy.
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Title: Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media by Martin A. Lee, Norman Solomon, Edward Asner ISBN: 0818405619 Publisher: Lyle Stuart Hardcover Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News by Norman Solomon, Jeff Cohen ISBN: 156751118X Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You by Norman Solomon, Reese Erlich, Howard Zinn, Sean Penn ISBN: 1893956393 Publisher: Context Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber ISBN: 1585422762 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Robert W. McChesney ISBN: 1583671056 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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