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1 | From Cronkite's Complaint to Orwell's Oversight | 1 |
Whom to Believe? | 2 | |
Cronkite and Other Critics | 4 | |
Class, Race, and Gender | 9 | |
Image Politics and Conservative Bias | 13 | |
Monopoly Politics | 18 | |
Do the Media Manage Our Minds? | 21 | |
Beyond Orwell's 1984 | 24 | |
2 | "Freedom of the Press Belongs to the Man Who Owns One" | 26 |
A Favored Few | 26 | |
Interlocking Control | 29 | |
Many Voices, One Chorus | 30 | |
3 | Who Controls the News? | 33 |
Calling the Tune: Owners | 33 | |
Calling the Tune: Advertisers | 35 | |
On the Line: Editors | 37 | |
Self-Censorship: Reporters | 40 | |
The Ruling Culture | 42 | |
Suppressing the News | 45 | |
4 | Objectivity and Government Manipulation | 51 |
The Myth of Objectivity | 51 | |
Not Enough Time, Space, and Money? | 55 | |
Maintaining Appearances | 58 | |
Is It All Economics? | 60 | |
Government Manipulation | 61 | |
5 | The Big Sell | 70 |
The Consumer Ideology | 71 | |
Selling the System | 74 | |
Public Service for Private Interests | 77 | |
Even Sports and Weather | 79 | |
6 | Giving Labor the Business | 83 |
Business over Labor | 83 | |
Nice Bosses, Crazy Strikers | 87 | |
The Invisible Worker | 92 | |
7 | "Liberal" Media, Conservative Bias | 95 |
Creating a "Conservative Mood" | 96 | |
Populist Electorate, Conservative Outcome | 101 | |
Pundits to the Right | 103 | |
How to Discredit Protestors | 105 | |
8 | The Media Fight the Red Menace | 112 |
Enter the Red Menace | 112 | |
The Cold War | 116 | |
The Creation of Joe McCarthy | 119 | |
Rational Hysteria | 121 | |
Twists and Turns | 124 | |
Celebrating the Collapse of Communism | 128 | |
9 | Doing the Third World | 137 |
The Vietnam Apology | 138 | |
Murder in Chile | 143 | |
Stomping on Grenada | 148 | |
10 | For the New World Order | 152 |
The "Totalitarian" Sandinistas | 152 | |
A Devil in Panama | 157 | |
Celebrating the Massacre of Iraq | 163 | |
11 | Propaganda Themes | 172 |
American Virtue and "Anti-Americanism" | 172 | |
The Nonexistence of Imperialism | 175 | |
"Moderate Authoritarian" Regimes | 176 | |
Evil, Power-Hungry Leftists | 179 | |
Economic "Failures" | 184 | |
Democracy Is in the Eyes of the Beholder | 186 | |
"Inferior" Peoples and Their Hopeless Ways | 188 | |
12 | Methods of Misrepresentation | 191 |
Selectivity and Deliberate Omission | 191 | |
Lies and Face-Value Transmission | 194 | |
False Balancing | 198 | |
Framing and Labeling | 200 | |
The Greying of Reality | 203 | |
Auxiliary Embellishments | 205 | |
Placement | 207 | |
13 | Culture, Control, and Resistance | 211 |
Capitalism and Culture | 211 | |
The Limits of Orthodoxy | 213 | |
Credibility and the "Liberal Bias" | 218 | |
Between Conspiracy and Culture | 224 | |
The Conflict Within | 227 | |
Appendix: A Guide to Alternative Media | 229 | |
Notes | 233 | |
Index | 255 |
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