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This book is in great unread condition. It only has slight wear on the corners from storage. It was written by Carl Jensen and Project Censored. The introduction was written by Michael Parenti. The cartoon strip "This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow appears throughout.
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| Details | | Illustrator: | Tom Tomorrow |
| | Size | | Length: | 352 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in. | | Width: | 5.3 in. | | Thickness: | 1.0 in. | | Weight: | 15.2 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | All the news that didn't make the news--from two decades of bird-dogging the media! Here are over 200 of the most censored and vital news stories that were largely neglected by the mass media when they were timely, and what has happened to them since. Jensen not only reports on the issues behind the news stories, but he follows the stories behind the stories, analyzing the ways in which corporate capitalism, "herd mentality", and laziness combine to influence and direct levels of media involvement. Illustrations.
| | Industry reviews | As a professor of communications studies at Sonoma State University in California, Jensen (Censored The News That Didn't Make the News and Why, 1900-1996) founded Project Censored, a media research project that has drawn as judges the likes of Noam Chomsky, Hugh Downs, Jessica Mitford and Bill Moyers. In this examination of print and electronic news coverage from 1976 through 1996, each chapter opens with the Associated Press's list of the 10 most important stories of the year, followed by Project Censored's list of the 10 most significant stories ignored by the mainstream media. The book contends, for example, that during 1994 "the news media flooded America with O.J. Simpson sensationalism," while a host of domestic issues were overlooked (e.g., the EPA's retreat on the ozone crisis, the resurgence of TB). The text demonstrates a pattern of media outlets wary of offending large corporations, of government agencies withholding or distorting stories and of a military causing more environmental pollution than the corporate offenders. Parenti controversially charges in his introduction, "Media bias... [favors] management over labor, corporations over corporate critics, affluent whites over inner-city poor, officialdom over protesters." The text is supplemented by stinging and witty cartoons by Tom Tomorrow. (Dec.)
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Libraries that have taken a pass on Jensen's annual Project Censored publications, as well as institutions that own them, will want to consider acquiring this 20-year retrospective. After an introduction by Michael Parenti on Project Censored's philosophy (that the media's narrow focus is not the result of conspiracy but bottom-line orientation, self-censorship, and either laziness or discomfort with the role of journalist-as-muckraker), Jensen and his colleagues zip through the 200 stories they've featured since 1976. . . . Many 'most censored' stories have come from left-leaning periodicals (The Nation, Mother Jones, The Progressive), but others--for instance mass slaughter by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia--first appeared in such conservative publications as the National Review. A fascinating overview of media blindspots and a solid starting point for research.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Carroll
Given Mr Jensen's rejection of conspiracy theory, it is unfortunate that the very first example of censorship in his long list concerns President Carter and his links with the Trilateral Commission. . . . The far right believes the commission to be a sinister power elite with plans for world government. . . . Not all the examples are as ludicrous. With the inestimable benefit of hindsight, it is apparent that there have been real lapses in the coverage of health and environmental issues such as Gulf-war syndrome. . . . Yet none of these scandals has gone entirely unreported. After all, Mr Jensen found out about then somehow, often from alternative journals. . . . The burden of his complaint is not that the mainstream media always ignored the stories; it is that they were slow on the uptake, letting the alternative press make the running. But surely that is what the alternative press is for.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Carroll
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