A

1. Abubacker, Ershad: Mainstream Media And The Propaganda Machine
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Mainstream media, especially the American media plays a vital role in shaping the world public opinion.
2. Acharya, Madhavi: Net's one place to go when you need to know
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1998
   Use the Internet to find information - but don't use it as your only source, and don't automatically trust everything you read.
3. Achbar, Mark; Wintonick, Peter: Manufacturing Consent
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Published: 1992
   A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
4. Adam, Brad: Media Freedom
   You will be harrassed and detained
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2007
   This report analyzes how the Chinese government is failing to fulfill its commitments to respect the reporting freedom of foreign correspondents during the period of the temporary regulations and is instead continuing to subject foreign reporters to detention, harassment, and intimidation. It also examines how the Chinese government maintains a stranglehold on the activities of domestic journalists.
5. Al-Obaidi, Jabbar Audah; Jawad, Abdul Sattar: Media Censorship in the Middle East
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2007
   Examines Middle-Eastern media censorship and shows how the censorial culture grew as the media developed in this region. It also illustrates the illusionary and deceptive arguments presented by the authorities citing articles and stipulations from the constitution that speaks for the freedom of the press and free speech.
6. Antoaneta Bezlova: CHINA: News of Ethnic Strife Skirts Chinese Censors
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The story of ethnic strife engulfing Xinjiang may have been relegated to the inner pages of the country’s state-controlled newspapers, but this time, the government could barely suppress the outflow of information.
   

B

1. Beals, Melba: Expose Yourself
   Using the Power of Public Relations to Promote Your Business and Yourself
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   
2. Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Misconceptions About the Media
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2006
   
3. Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Strategies for an Appearance in Front of an Editorial Board
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2006
   
4. Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Things to do Before a Presentation or Speech
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2006
   
5. Boyle, Kevin et al.: Unveiled
   Art and Censorship in Iran
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2006
   This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and individual expression.
6. Brean, Joseph: Toronto homeless sell hate propaganda
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   
7. Bruce Urquhart: When national media descends on a small town story
   Resource Type: Unclassified
   Published: 2009
   As the national media began to trickle into Woodstock to cover the mysterious abduction of eight-year-old Victoria Stafford, the tenor of the story changed.
   
8. Bucaro, Leanne: Creating your Key Messages - Part One
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Key messages are phrases of different lengths that provide a description of your company in very succinct understandable terms.
9. Bucaro, Leanne: Creating your Key Messages - Part Two
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Nobody knows your business better than you - so you, as the business owner or CEO, are in the best position to develop or lead the project to develop the key messages for your company.
10. Bucaro, Leanne: Pitching the Media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    When pitching a story idea to a reporter, remember that they don't really care. Your job is to make them care. A well thought-out, concise pitch will ensure you don't strike out.
11. Bucaro, Leanne: Using Social Media To Build Your Brand
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Social media is the fastest growing medium to market your product and communicate with your audience. And when it comes to branding your product it just might be the simplest and cheapest way to create awareness to potential clients.

C

1. Carletti, Fabiola: Know Your Digital Rights, Photographers
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   
2. Chomsky, Noam: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1997
   Noam Chomsky shares his approach to analyzing media and reveals the meaning and consequence of the strategic design of communication.
3. Chomsky, Noam; Herman, Edward S.: Distortions at Fourth Hand
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1977
   Chomsky addresses the issue of "freedom of the press". He points out that while publications that shun eyewitness accounts of the situation in post-war Vietnam have a daily circulation of approx. 250 000, smaller publications which rely on these firsthand testimonies reach a limited audience. In this fashion, Chomsky warns of the dangers of accepting only what filters through to the American public, as it is "a seriously distorted version of the evidence available".
4. Cogswell, David; Gordon, Paul: Chomsky for Beginners
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
5. Cook, Jonathan: A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   A comparative review of two recent books about the media, one a mainstream view, the other using the propaganda model of media control.
6. Cook, Jonathan: Israel's Attack on Us All
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   If we needed any evidence of the degree to which Western TV journalists are simply stenographers to power, the BBC, CNN and others are amply proving it. Mark Regev, Israel’s propagandist-in-chief, has the airwaves largely to himself. The passengers on the ships, meanwhile, have been kidnapped by Israel and are unable to provide an alternative version of events. We can guess they will remain in enforced silence until Israel is sure it has set the news agenda.
7. Cook, Jonathan: Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government’s line on the Middle East conflict.
   

D

1. Dadge, David: Silenced
   International Journalists Expose Media Censorship
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2008
   What happens to journalists who expose uncomfortable truths? How far are journalists prepared to go in order to report a difficult story? Silenced provides answers to these questions with the stories of journalists who risked their careers so that the public might be informed.
2. Diemer, Ulli: Abandonando el Interés Público
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2000
   Las sociedades industriales aprendieron, en el curso de décadas, que los intereses privados no pueden ser usados para salvaguardar el interés público cuando entran en conflicto con sus propios intereses. Fue una lección dura, aprendida con el costo de muchas vidas, pero el resultado fue que gradualmente, pieza por pieza, país a país, una infraestructura pública de regulaciones y agencias y procedimientos fue obtenida para proteger la salud pública y la seguridad. Esa infraestructura está siendo minimizada ahora, no sólo por fuera, sino por dentro de las propias instituciones gubernamentales.
3. Diemer, Ulli: Abandoning the Public Interest
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2001
   The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
4. Diemer, Ulli: Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Simplified) Text
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2001
   
5. Diemer, Ulli: Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Traditional) Text
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2001
   
6. Diemer, Ulli: Abandonner l'intérêt publique
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2001
   Les sociétés industrielles ont appris au cour de décennies, que les intérêts privées ne peuvent être fait confiance de sauvegarder l'intérêt publique si il y à conflit avec leurs intérêts. C'étais une dure leçon apprie aux coûts de plusieurs vies, mais le résultat à été graduellement, pièce par pièce, pays par pays, une infrastructure de régulations publiques et d'agences et procédés mis sur pied pour protéger la santé publique et la sécurité. L'infrastructure est maintenant sapée pas seulement de l'extérieur, mais du gouvernement même.
7. Diemer, Ulli: Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1985
   The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
8. Diemer, Ulli: Anarquismo vs. Marxismo
   Algunas notas sobre un tema antiguo
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1978
   Un movimiento que desdeña la teoría y adora las acciones sin crítica, el anarquismo sigue siendo un edificio tambaleante consistente de varios pedazos de análisis marxista, reforzando unos preceptos tácticos inflexibles.
9. Diemer, Ulli: Arrêtons de se faire des illusions
   Le magazine Canadien Dimensions discute du Nouveau Parti Démocratique Canadien
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1989
   Si nous devons plus que jamais avancer, nous devons y faire face : Le NPD n'est pas un parti socialiste. Le NPD n'a jamais été un parti socialiste. Le NPD ne sera jamais un parti socialiste.
10. Diemer, Ulli: Bailando con la culpa: Los hombres hablando de la violencia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    
11. Diemer, Ulli: The Capital Punishment Debate - Chinese text
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    
12. Diemer, Ulli: Contamination: L'Héritage Vénéneux des coupures écologiques de l'Ontario
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
    
13. Diemer, Ulli: Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
    The story of Ontario's right-way Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
14. Diemer, Ulli: Contra Todos los Pronósticos
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1985
    La creencia que la sociedad oficial es tan abrumadora que no se puede hacer nada al respecto está muy cerca de la idea que no puede hacer nada. La idea que las cosas se volverán a hacer si la gente se une para hacerlo ellos mismos contiene la semilla de la idea que la gente tiene el poder para hacer todo.
15. Diemer, Ulli: La crise Iraquienne en context
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2003
    Un état solitaire, lourdement armé avec des armes de destruction massives, ouvertement méprisant des lois internationales et des Nations Unies et avec une réputation menaçante d'invader d'autres pays et à plonger le monde dans une crise.
    Comment le monde doit il réagir à cette menace? Que peut ont faire à propos des États Unies et leurs ambitions ouvertement impérialistiques?
    
16. Diemer, Ulli: La crisis de Irak en contexto
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2003
    Un estado sin control, pesadamente provisto con armas de destrucción masiva, abiertamente despectivo de la ley internacional y de las Naciones Unidas, y con un record de extensión en aterrorizar e invadir otros países, ha hundido el mundo en crisis.
    Como debería el mundo responder a esta amenaza? Que podemos nosotros hacer respecto a los Estados Unidos y sus obvias ambiciones imperialistas?
    
17. Diemer, Ulli: El Debate de la Pena Capital
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    
18. Diemer, Ulli: Derechos y Libertades
    Introduccion al Volumen 9, Número 2 del Sumario de Connexions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    
19. Diemer, Ulli: 10 mythes des soins de santé
    Comprendre le débat de l'Assistance Médicale Canadienne
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    Un guide concis expliquant les 10 mythes regardant les Soins de Sant#.
20. Diemer, Ulli: 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression – they are for it ‘in principle’, but only so long as it isn’t used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
    
21. Diemer, Ulli: Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
    
22. Diemer, Ulli: Il danse avec la Culpabilité
    Un regard sur les hommes qui regardent la violence
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Des théories simplistiques qui sont reliées à la violence à un facteur et seulement un facteur, la masculinité qui sert à décourager un examen sérieux sur la cause qui mène certains hommes et aussi certaines femmes a devenir violents.
    
23. Diemer, Ulli: An Intelligent Guide to Intelligent Research
    A review of The Oxford Guide to Library Research, by Thomas Mann
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
    Review of the Oxford Guide to Library Research, a first-rate guide to how to think about research and how to formulate strategies for answering research questions.
24. Diemer, Ulli: Iraq Crisis in Context - Greek text
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2003
    
25. Diemer, Ulli: Journaux radicaux
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    
26. Diemer, Ulli: Maintenant qu'est ce qu'on fait?
    Établir un mouvement social suite aux conséquences du libre échange
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    Nous savons que l'accord du libre échange va éroder l'indépendance Canadienne qui est déjà limitée. Ce qui rendra encore plus difficile de résister la croisade néo conservatrice qui tien à éliminer tout ce qui se tient devant un profit sur le marché.
27. Diemer, Ulli: La Peine Capitale
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    Malgr# les croyances # base #motionnelle, la peine de mort ne dissuade pas. D'un pays # autre, on a pu trouver que l'existence, l'abolition, ou la re-application de la peine capitale n'avait aucune influence visible sur la fr#quence de meurtres.
28. Diemer, Ulli: Pensando en la Auto-determinación
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    Un buen lugar para empezar ser#a preguntarse si el familiar principio de la Izquierda, "el derecho de auto-determinaci#n" realmente significa algo o si es otro eslogan vac#o cuyo principal uso es que la Izquierda lo puede repetir como mantra y as# salvarse de tener que pensar de manera cr#tica.
29. Diemer, Ulli: Que es el Socialismo Libertario?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    
30. Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
    
31. Diemer, Ulli: Radical Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
32. Diemer, Ulli: Réflections sur l'autodétermination
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    Pour Panitch et ses compagnons l'autodétermination n'a qu'un seul sens: celui de la sécession. Ils disent aux Quebécois: "Vous avez le droit de partir. Alors dépêchez-vous!" Il ne leur passe pas par la tête que les Quebécois peuvent choisir une option différente de celle de la sécession.
33. Diemer, Ulli: Rosa Luxemburg's contribución al Marxismo
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
    Yo veo a Rosa Luxemburg como la marxista qui#n hizo lo mas que pudo para mostrar la teor#a-revolucionaria de Karl Marxs en el periodo despu#s de la muerte de Marx y Engels.
34. Diemer, Ulli: Ten Health Care Myths
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
35. Diemer, Ulli: 10 Health Care Myths - Chinese Text
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    
36. Diemer, Ulli: Un Voto por la Democracia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1986
    
37. Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Expose Yourself!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    A booklet about effective media relations, providing practical advice about getting media coverage and relating to the media.
38. Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
39. Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Speaking to the Media
    A special report from Sources with articles from The Sources HotLink
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2005
    Being seen, heard, and quoted in the media is perhaps the quickest, best, and most lasting way for a speaker to become better known and more sought after. This booklet offers advice on handling media calls and interviews well.
40. Diemer, Ulli (Publisher): Media Names & Numbers 2009
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
41. Ditz, Jason: Amid Censorship, Israel’s Media Does Its Part
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Israel’s media has once again chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government.
42. Dunn, Ross: Dropped Search Engine Rankings Caused by Duplication
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Duplicate content can and will negatively affect search engine rankings.
43. Dunn, Ross: Is Your Website Search Engine Friendly?
    Your Personal Checklist
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    When I sit down with new clients and discuss the status of their new or existing site they are often shocked when I am forced to inform them that their site is not search engine friendly.

E

1. Edwards, David; Cromwell, David: Newspeak in the 21st Century
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2009
   Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
2. Elton, Heather; Moon, Barbara; Obe, Don: Why are you telling me this?
   Eleven Acts of Intimate Journalism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   Eleven journalists from the Arts Journalism Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts get personal.

F

1. Fillmore, Nick: Canwest latest ‘media giant’ to exploit news operations
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they’ve deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it’s not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
2. Fillmore, Nick: Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
3. Fillmore, Nick: Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge Breakthrough
   Part 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
4. Fillmore, Nick: Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
   Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   A group that launches, or even refocuses, an independent news media project – or raises money for just about any public-interest activity – will probably have success in fundraising if it does the proper research and targets a unique audience. It will need to demonstrate that it offers an important public service, such as providing in-depth coverage of local political, economic, and social issues not covered adequately by other media.
5. Fillmore, Nick: Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   We should be able to come up with two or three practical models that can be used to set up sustainable news and information production and delivery systems.
6. Fillmore, Nick: Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
7. Fisk, Robert: Journalism and 'the words of power'
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
8. Freedom to Read: Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   This updated document provides a list of 100 books and magazines which have been challenged due to their content between the years of 1989 and 2009.

G

1. Garfinkle, Miriam; Deutsch, Judith; Abdul-Qadir, Reem; Santa Barbara, Joanna: Gaza: Health System in Collapse
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   The extremity of suffering in Gaza is little known in the West. Underlying the health emergency is the Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza’s basic infrastructure and Israel’s closure of all Gaza’s borders.
2. Giordano, Al: From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Every time a daily newspaper of the obsolete model lays off another round of reporters, more of them come to us to study and learn the craft anew from this very different and opposite angle: from below, as opposed to the top down model that encrusted around them and doomed the previous version of their careers. Truth is, there is a direct correlation between the space in the media sphere that gets freed up every time a daily newspaper loses circ or dies and the increased reach that we and others have as we replace them with a better more people-powered model. So don’t mourn the American daily newspaper. Anything you liked about it will continue but from a different set of new media. The time will come when one or more of those publications, or a new one yet to come in the US, will turn to the models that work for the daily Por Esto! or El Libertador or others South of the border, kissing their slavish dependence on advertisers goodbye and throwing their lot in, instead, with the larger multitudes of society.
3. Graham, Barbara Florio: Schedule a Photo Shoot
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Snapshots taken by friends or family are fine for most purposes, but when you need a professional portrait to use on your website, in your promotional materials or for the back cover of your book, you need to hire a professional.

H

1. Hussay, Andrew: The Game of War
   The Life and Death of Guy Debord
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Hutchinson, Allen C.; Peterson, Klaus: Interpreting Censorship in Canada
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   This book situates censorship in a larger context beyond the regular for and against arguments of censorship by providing an understanding of how censorship is practiced in Canada and the structures in our political culture which enable censorship to occur. The book has a total of 23 contributers.
3. Hutnyk, John: Bad Marxism
   Capitalism and Cultural Studies
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2004
   Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.

I

1. Issachar, Hedva: 2009 Journalist Conference in Israel: No News
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The support provided by Israel’s primary media to the security and political moves of the government—any government—is not new in Israel. The perception that media is committed to the ethics of the “public’s right to know,” in numerous cases even against strong currents that demand the silencing and concealment of information, serves more as a title for academic conferences and less as a rule that guides the media establishment in Israel. Not only this, but the journalists’ association adopted the official governmental approach in relation to international forums concerned with human rights. This approach places obstacles of suspicion and hostility before anyone who does not follow the official line of Israeli patriotism. Legitimate criticism of unprofessional and unethical conduct of media that volunteers for national or military service is countered with the contention that the source of criticism is anti-Semitic.

J

1. Jin, Ha: The Writer as Migrant
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2009
   Chinese born Ha Jin discusses the ways in which nationality and culture, exile and emigration affect the course of a writer's life career and influence the work he produces.
2. Johnson, Bobbie: US games company sues British blogger
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   In an internet defamation case that lawyers say could set an "extraordinary precedent", an American games company is suing a British blogger in the Australian courts.

K

1. Keeble, Richard: How Alternative Media Provide The Crucial Critique Of The Mainstream
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   The closeness of the mainstream to dominant economic, cultural and ideological forces means that the mainstream largely functions to promote the interests of the military/industrial/political complex. Yet within advanced capitalist economies, the contradictions and complexities of corporate media have provided certain spaces for progressive journalism.
2. Kokeji, Milind: Media: Agents of Brands-Not of Change
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Non-implementation of the Millenium Development Goals (MdG's) is akin to 100 jumbo jets crashing everyday and a tsunami hitting a country each week. Every year, 10 million children die before they reach the age of five, as 8 million people suffer from hunger. Poverty claims more victims than war does. Actually, this is enough diet for the media, which is ever hungry for sensationalism, to get attracted towards MDG's. Still, it is not, and in all probabilities it would not.
3. Kovach, Bill and Rostentiel, Tom: The Elements of Journalism
   What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2001
   The Elements of Journalism delineates the core principles shared by journalists across media, even across cultures. These principles flow from the essential function news plays in people's lives. This new edition, published April 2007, is completely updated and revised and includes a new 10th principle--the rights and responsibilites of citizens -- flowing from new power conveyed by technology to the citizen as a consumer and editor of their own news and information.
   
4. Kozolanka, Kirsten: The Power of Persuation
   The Politics of the New Right in Ontario
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2007
   Kozolanka looks at how the New Right government of former Ontario Premier Mike Harris came to power by using successful strategies from other countries to gain public consent for its neo-conservative policies. Relying on evidence drawn from literature, interviews and content analysis, she argues that this trajectory was "neither haphazard nor narrowly constructed."

L

1. Lauria,Carlos and Simon,Joel: Nicaragua Special Report: Daniel Ortega's Media War
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Driven by decades old hostilities, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has deined independent media as enemies and has moved aggressively to obstruct them. In a special report, Carlos Lauria and Joel Simon detail the government's tactics against independent media.
2. LaVigne, Mark: A Proverbial Needle in an Electronic Haystack
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   A combination of the new copyright law, the trend towards subscription-based news media websites has made the media monitoring task feel like a search for a needle in an electronic haystack at times.
3. LaVigne, Mark Hunter: Create a Media Friendly Media Section on your Web site
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Web site media sections are an opportunity for an organization to provide the news media with an easy-to-use, multimedia platform to disseminate information about that organization and its news.
4. Levant, Ezra: Shakedown
   How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2009
   A controversial look at what Levant sees as the corruption of Canada's human rights commissions.
5. Lorimer, Rowland; McNulty, Jean: Mass Communications in Canada
   Resource Type: Book
   

M

1. Marlin, Randall: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuation
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Marsh, Dave: 50 Ways to Fight Censorship
   And Important Facts to Know about Censors
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1991
   A practical guide to generating support and publicity for freedom of speech and how to combat acts of censorship.
3. Mazrui, Alamin M.; Muchiri, Mundia; Oloo, Vera; Kenya Human Rights Commission: Media Censorship in a Plural Context
   A Report on the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1998
   
4. McChesney, Robert: Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
   An interview with Robert McChesney
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Robert McChesney talks about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it.
5. McChesney, Robert: Political Economy of Media
   Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas
   Resource Type: Book
   Demonstrates the incompatibility of the corporate media system with a viable democratic public sphere, and the corrupt policymaking process that brings the system into existence.
6. McChesney, Robert W.; Nichols, John: The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States.
7. McChesney, Robert W; Foster, John Bellamy: The Big Picture
   Understanding Media Through Political Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2003
   Examines the nature of contemporary journalism, the role of the media system in the process of globalization, and the workings of new communication technologies, including the Internet.
8. McChesney, Robert W; Wood, Ellen Meiksins; Foster, John Bellamy: Capitalism and the Information Age
   The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   A rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of new technologies.
9. Mencher, Melvin: Basic News Writing
   Resource Type: Book
   
10. Morillon, Lucie; Julliard, Jean-François: Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time, increasingly inventive netizens demonstrate mutual solidarity by mobilizing when necessary.
11. Morrison, Blake: Black day for the blue pencil
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2005
    

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1. Nager, Norman: Strategic Public Relations Councelling
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Noujaim, Jehane (director): Control Room
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Published: 2004
   Shows the coverage of the 2003 Iraqi war from the perspective of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet.
3. Novis, Melanie: Mastering the Teleprompter
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Mastering the teleprompter can be learned by using ten easy steps.

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1. O'Brien, Danny: Microsoft, piracy, and independent media in Kyrgyzstan
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Selective enforcement of alleged software infringement is being used with some frequency in the former Soviet republics as cover to harass independent media. Local law enforcement officials have been given broad powers, in the name of fighting piracy, to raid premises and seize hardware. For the most part, Western companies and governments have encouraged this broadening of powers.
2. Ostergaard, Anders: Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Anders Østergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB members regularly put their lives at risk to reveal the realities of living under a brutal military occupation despite the government crackdown on free media and internet.
3. Ostier, Nicholas: Empires of the Word
   A Language History of the World
   Resource Type: Book
   

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1. Panitch, Leo; Keys, Colin (eds.): Telling the Truth
   Socialist Register 2006
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
2. Patterson, Thomas E.: Doing Well and Doing Good
   How Softnews and Critical Journalism are Shrinking the News Audience and Weakening Democracy- And what News Outlets can do about it
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2000
   The News has changed greatly in the past two decades. In response to the intensensely competitive media environment created by cable, news and entertainment, news outlets have softened their coverage. Their news has also become increasingly critical in tone.
3. Patterson, Thomas E.: The Internet and the Threat it Poses to Local Media
   Lessons from News in Schools
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2007
   Internet news is trumping both television news and local newspapers as a daily mode of classroom instruction. Furthermore, national and international news site, such as nytimes.com and bbc.com. are trumping local news sites in American news. These developments threaten the economic viabilityof local news outlets but also the special contribution they make to American democracy.
4. Penny, Laura: Your Call is Important to Us
   The Truth About Bullshit
   Resource Type: Book
   
5. Project for Excellence in Journalism: The State of the News Media 2009
   An Annual Report on American Journalism
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Some of the numbers are chilling. Newspaper ad revenues have fallen 23% in the last two years. Some papers are in bankruptcy, and others have lost three-quarters of their value. Nearly one out of every five journalists working for newspapers in 2001 is now gone, and 2009 may be the worst year yet. In local television, news staffs, already too small to adequately cover their communities, are being cut at unprecedented rates; revenues fell by 7% in an election year — something unheard of — and ratings are now falling or are flat across the schedule. In network news, even the rare programs increasing their ratings are seeing revenues fall. The report also includes our in-depth content analysis, based on a study of nearly 80,000 news stories and television and radio segments in A Year in the News. This year we also offer some Special Reports. There is one on citizen-based media, including a university study of 363 citizen websites in 46 markets. There is a backgrounder on the growing models of entrepreneurial journalism, new Web news organizations run by professional journalists outside the mainstream press.

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1. Roberts, Paul Craig: Unintended Consequences
   Beware the Hate Crimes Bill!
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   It will prove difficult to separate speaking against members of protected classes, or criticizing their practices, from hate. The two things are easily conflated. Once enacted, hate crimes will become independent of specific violent acts. An eventual likely outcome will be that speaking against members of specially protected classes will itself become a violent act of inciting violence.
2. Robicheau, Colette: How to Handle Phone Interviews
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   For some people, doing a phone interview - whether for a job or with the press - can be more unnerving than face-to-face. Being unable to read someone's expressions, or look them in the eye, can throw a person off track.
3. Robicheau, Colette: Making the Most of Your Media Interview
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Being prepared for an interview will make you less nervous and more confident, and with confidence comes increased credibility.
4. Rosenstiel, Tom and Mitchell, Amy: Thinking Clearly
   Cases in Journalistic Decision Making
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2003
   Working with academic advisors and a team of long-time journalists, the Project for Excellence in Journalism created a case study curriculum for teaching journalistic process and practice. This textbook offers students the opportunity to discuss eight case studies in decision-making — including: Watergate, online journalism, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, and the Columbine school shooting. An accompanying set of teaching notes is available online.
5. Rostentiel, Tom; Just, Marion; Belt, Todd Belt; Pertilla, Atiba; Dean, Walter and Chinni, Dante: We Interrupt This News Cast
   How to Improve Local News and Win Ratings Too
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2007
   Uses empirical evidence, social science analysis and actual ratings data to disprove much of the conventional wisdom about what works to win viewers in local TV news. The work is based on five years of research of 154 stations in 50 markets – more than 33,000 stories, plus survey data of news professionals and workshop interviews with more than 2,000 TV journalists. The findings show that flashing lights, yellow police tape and “hook and hold” structure of most newscasts actually drive viewers away. So does that idea that only certain topics are interesting. Instead, the book shows that by telling stories better, with more balance, deeper sourcing, and more real information, newscasts have a undisputable record of winning in the marketplace. The problem is there just aren't enough of those kinds of stories.
   
6. Ryan, Tricia: Selling the Invisible: Book Review
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Ideas for research, presentations, publicity, advertising and client retention
7. Ryan, Tricia: 7 Essentials for a Great Website
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   If you want your website to generate action, think about how each component of your website will get your customer through the sales lifecycle – to capture their interest, create desire and generate action.

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1. Sainath, P.: Pay-to-Print
   "News" Stories for Cash Scandal Rocks India
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   On "paid news".
2. Saxby, David: Building on the Emotional Experience of the Brand
   Linking Individual Brands With the Brand of a Convention or Event
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   As professional speakers, we each seek to create our own brand. However, in today's marketplace, aligning everything we do with the brand of the convention or event will assist us in fulfilling the expectations of those who hire us.
3. Schiller, Ed: Managing the Media
   Resource Type: Book
   
4. Shah, Anup: Corporate Influence in the Media
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Some nations can influence and control their media greatly. In addition, powerful corporations are becoming major influences on mainstream media. In some places major multinational corporations own media stations and outlets. Moreover, even as numbers of media outlets increase, the ownership is becoming ever more concentrated as mega mergers take hold. At the same time, vertical integration gives the big players even more avenues to cross-sell and cross-market their products for even more amazing profits. An effect of this though is a reduction in diversity and depth of content that the public can get, while increasing the political and economic power of corporations and advertisers. An informed population is crucial element to a functioning democracy.
5. Shah, Anup: Mainstream Media Introduction
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Someone once said that a person’s perception of reality is a result of their beliefs. In today’s age, a lot of those beliefs are in some ways formed via the mainstream media. It is therefore worth looking at what the media presents, how it does so, and what factors affect the way it is done. This section of the globalissues.org web site introduces some of those aspects.
6. Shah, Anup: Media Manipulation
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2006
   Media manipulation often involves government or corporate propaganda and spin. Sometimes organizations and governments can feed fake news or politically or ideologically slanted stories to broadcasters which depict them as quality news items and journalism.
7. Shiller, Ed: The psycholinguistic phenomenon
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   There is no doubt that the literal meaning of the words you use in written or oral communications will have an effect on the people you are trying to reach. But equally, if not more, important are the meanings conveyed by our nonverbal communication.
8. Siskind, Barry: The Untapped Potential of your Trade Show Network
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   When it comes to networking opportunities, trade shows provide one of the best venues. Here is the one place where everyone in your industry congregates for a few short days and is focused on one thing – business.
9. Solomon, Norman; Cohen, Jeff: Wizards of Media Oz
   Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   This book is culled from the recent work of Norman Solomon, author of a syndicated "Media Beat" column and Jeff Cohen, founder of media watch-dog Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting.
10. Sommers, Susan: Creating a customized Marketing Toolkit
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    A marketing toolkit contains the essential ingredients you need to successfully reach and persuade your key markets.
11. Sommers, Susan: Making your marketing brochure a keeper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    A good brochure will effectively communicate the most important facts about your organization. The best brochures combine elements of marketing (they sell your organization) and public relations (they educate the reader).
12. Sommers, Susan: Marketing/PR - the new face of marketing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Marketing/PR offers a variety of cost-effective tools that can easily be implemented into a long-term strategy and plan. These include information sessions, testimonial brochures, print and e-mail newsletters, Internet sites, on-line media rooms, media-friendly events, speaking engagements, networking events, trade and consumer shows, sponsorship opportunities, and media campaigns.
13. Szalai, Georg and Colbern Uhl: Nielsen Study
    Teens Still Rely Primarily on Traditional Media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    A recent report by The Nielsen Co, entitled "How Teens Use Media," shows that teenagers are still engaged in traditional media such as newspapers and television. Most of them simply "make time" for both traditional media and new forms of communication such as Twitter, Youtube or Facebook. The survey shows that television is still the leading type of media with a thrilling average daily watching time of 3 hours and 20 minutes in the US. The survey was conducted in 50 countries.

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1. Taras, David: The Newsmakers
   The Media's Influence on Canadian Politics
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Tatchell, Peter: What About a Right of Reply?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1998
   Concern about press intrusion is overshadowing the need for a 'right of reply' to redress inaccurate and inflammatory reporting.
3. Thompson, Allan: The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2007
   The news media played a crucial role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Local media fueled the killings, while international media either ignored or seriously misunderstood what was happening. This is the first book to explore both sides of the media equation. Examining how local radio was used as a tool of hate, encouraging neighbors to turn against each other, the book also presents a critique of international media coverage.
4. Tudor, Dean: À travers tout cela - au fil des ans - il y avait SOURCES
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2007
   SOURCES est plus que de simples spécialistes. C’est un répertoire des sentiers pour l’essentiel de la démocratie, rendant disponible des noms et adresses de tous les personnages influents du Canada et au-delà.
5. Tudor, Dean: Mundo Digital de Dean 59
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2007
   

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1. Valente, Marcela: Through the Lens of Young Slum Dwellers
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
2. Various: Building a better Journalism
   Media activists and scholars share their ideas
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Extra! asked progressive media activists and scholars to share their ideas on how to make journalism's future better than its present; the following are some of the highlights:
   The one thing that we should do in the face of the erosion of commercial journalism is invest heavily in libraries. That means we should publicly support the human capital, technological tools, and collections of public, school and university libraries.
   

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1. Wade, P.J.: Are You Prepared for 21st-Century Interviews?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Chances are that, if media consider you interview-worthy, you possess a decade or two of experience and knowledge that they believe is valuable. Therefore, the question is not "Do you know enough to answer questions?," but "Can you make your point with clear, fresh 21st-Century relevance?"
2. Wade, P.J.: Can You Make Your Point Relevant?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   When speaking to the media, the point is, "Can you frame your response cleverly, concisely and memorably in language and context that is extremely relevant to the audience that particular media outlet or journalist is intent on impressing?
3. Whitehead, Peter: Crisis Fund for Independent Media
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The global financial crisis is threatening to silence independent news outlets more effectively than any government. The Media Development Loan Fund's (MDLF) Crisis Fund is providing vital support to help clients survive the recession.
   
4. Williams, Raymod: Keywords
   A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
   Resource Type: Unclassified
   

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1. Zarwan, Elijah; Goldstein, Eric; Ghaemi, Hadi; Stork, Joe; PoKempner, Dinah; et al.: False Freedom
   Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2005
   This report examines internet censorship policy and how theIinternet has transformed the accessibility of information mainly in the countries of Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. When examining each country the following is considered: government policies on Internet access, theIinternet's role in affecting freedom of expression, restrictive laws and cases in which individuals have been detained for their online activities.
2. Zhao, Yuezhi: Beware of the hidden agendas of media censorship in China
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   This article argues that China's censorship of the Tibetan protests during the Olympic games was the state's attempt to maintain a positive image of the West within China. Zhao argues that the West has misinterpreted Chinese censorship policies and emphasizes how censorship policies seek to contain "explosive Chinese nationalism and domestic social conflicts" rather than oppress the people.
3. Zoch, Jamie: Promote Your Auction Domain Name Listings
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   One in the crowd! This is what your domain name is when you submit it to a live domain auction or any domain auction really. One in the crowd. Unless your domain is one of the headliners due to it being an amazing domain name, the rest kind of are just "in the list".