- The Television Thing - http://www.jscheuer.com/dissent.htm
This article summarizes The Sound Bite Society, a study of television and ideology. (Dissent Summer 1995) By Jeffery Scheuer
- Hold On to Your Phone Bill -- It's Merger Time - http://www.motherjones.com/fotc/fotc6.html
Commentary on lack of FCC concern about the effects of consolidation of telephone and broadcasting services on consumer interests and democracy. From Mother Jones.
- Chris's News and Views - http://members.tripod.com/chris.shumway/
Media analysis and criticism from a former TV news anchor, reporter and meteorologist. Also includes links to media research groups and organizations committed to creating a more democratic, citzen-based media environment.
- McChesney's - http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR23.3/mcchesney.html
Article that critcizes the effect of commercial corporate media on society, and that calls for reform that brings diversity of ownership and access. By Robert McChesney from The Boston Review.
- A New Years's Resolution For The Right - https://secure.mediaresearch.org/columns/news/col19981229.html
Conservative commentators Brent Bozell and Michael Medved contend that a challenge for the right is overcoming the fact that television's emotional nature inherently favors liberals rather than the logic of conservatism.
- Ben Bagdikian Interview - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/bagdikian1.html
Interview with media analyst about effect of corporate media ownership, using tobacco issue as example. From PBS Frontline.
- Consent, American Style - http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/Consent_AmerStyle.html
Analysis and commentary by Steve Mizrach about manipulation of the public through the media. Based on views of Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, and Ben Bagdikian.
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