Product Description: As the U.S. enters the last lap of the 2008 presidential election season, the media and the candidates are in full gear exploiting each other, often at the expense of public information and awareness. This book looks at how presidents and presidential candidates use television, the Internet, and newspapers to promote their policies and themselves, even as they are sometimes manipulated by the media they so avidly seek...read more

A New York Times columnist reveals the spin campaign of the Bush administration that the author contends enabled the support of a war against a non-September 11 enemy, furthered conservative agendas, and dangerously consolidated presidential power, in an account that also reveals how the mainstream news media was prevented from exposing propaganda tactics. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.

A New York Times columnist reveals the spin campaign of the Bush administration that the author contends enabled the support of a war against a non-September 11 enemy, furthered conservative agendas, and dangerously consolidated presidential power, in an account that also reveals how the mainstream news media was prevented from exposing propaganda tactics. 250,000 first printing.

Product Description: In Information War, former United States Information Agency employee Nancy Snow describes how U.S. propaganda efforts and covert operations are expanding more rapidly today than at any other time in U.S. history, as the Bush administration attempts to increase U...read more

Product Description: This work is an introduction to the key issues of contemporary news reporting for students of media and journalism. It includes practical case studies of why some items make it into the news and others don't, how sources are used and abused, and what kind of values govern news reporting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A powerful expos of the right-wing's efforts to shape the news. In recent years, right-wing foundations and think tanks with deep pockets and aggressive agendas have reshaped the national debate on the fundamental issues that affect all of us...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)