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Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control . . .
Written by Fred W. Friendly
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
This discourse on the importance of television in society presents Friendly's uncannily prescient views on the corrosive effect of money on the news business, the sensationalization of news reporting, and the viewing public's appetite for quality broadcasting.
With Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly practically invented television journalism. Through telling anecdotes and... Read more >
Written by Fred W. Friendly
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
This discourse on the importance of television in society presents Friendly's uncannily prescient views on the corrosive effect of money on the news business, the sensationalization of news reporting, and the viewing public's appetite for quality broadcasting.
With Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly practically invented television journalism. Through telling anecdotes and... Read more >
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The Good Guys, the Bad Guys and the First Amendment
Free Speech Vs. Fairness in Broadcasting
Written by Fred W. Friendly
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $11.99
Unlike newspapers, TV and radio broadcasting is subject to government regulation in the form of the FCC and the Fairness Doctrine, which requires stations "to devote a reasonable amount of broadcast time to the discussion of controversial issues" and "to do so farily, in order to afford reasonable opportunity for opposing... Read more >
Free Speech Vs. Fairness in Broadcasting
Written by Fred W. Friendly
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $11.99
Unlike newspapers, TV and radio broadcasting is subject to government regulation in the form of the FCC and the Fairness Doctrine, which requires stations "to devote a reasonable amount of broadcast time to the discussion of controversial issues" and "to do so farily, in order to afford reasonable opportunity for opposing... Read more >
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Censored 2013
The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011-2012
Edited by Mickey Huff
Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Contribution by Project Censored
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $19.95
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group--a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff--has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought... Read more >
The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011-2012
Edited by Mickey Huff
Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Contribution by Project Censored
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $19.95
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group--a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff--has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Censored 2013
The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011-2012
Edited by Mickey Huff
Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Contribution by Project Censored
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $19.95
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group--a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff--has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought... Read more >
The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011-2012
Edited by Mickey Huff
Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Contribution by Project Censored
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $19.95
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group--a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff--has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Poison Penmanship
The Gentle Art of Muckraking
Written by Jessica Mitford
Preface by Jane Smiley
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $15.95
Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England’s most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter and unrepentant gadfly... Read more >
The Gentle Art of Muckraking
Written by Jessica Mitford
Preface by Jane Smiley
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $15.95
Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England’s most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter and unrepentant gadfly... Read more >
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The Taliban Shuffle
Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Written by Kim Barker
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.95
Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Written by Kim Barker
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.95
When Kim Barker first arrived in Kabul as a journalist in 2002, she barely owned a passport, spoke only English and had little idea how to do the “Taliban Shuffle” between Afghanistan and Pakistan. No matter—her stories about Islamic militants and shaky reconstruction were soon overshadowed by the bigger news in...
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The Fox Effect
How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
Written by David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $15.00
Based on the meticulous research of the news watchdog organization Media Matters for America, David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show how Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the Republican Party.
The Fox Effect follows the career of Ailes from... Read more >
How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
Written by David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $15.00
Based on the meticulous research of the news watchdog organization Media Matters for America, David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show how Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the Republican Party.
The Fox Effect follows the career of Ailes from... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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The Fox Effect
How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
Written by David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America
Read by Bob Dunsworth
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $20.00
Based on the meticulous research of the news watchdog organization Media Matters for America, David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show how Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the Republican Party.
The Fox Effect follows the career of Ailes from... Read more >
How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
Written by David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America
Read by Bob Dunsworth
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $20.00
Based on the meticulous research of the news watchdog organization Media Matters for America, David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show how Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the Republican Party.
The Fox Effect follows the career of Ailes from... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Morning Miracle
Inside the Washington Post The Fight to Keep a Great Newspaper Alive
Written by Dave Kindred
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $15.00
Inside the Washington Post The Fight to Keep a Great Newspaper Alive
Written by Dave Kindred
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $15.00
In this in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at The Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize nominee Dave Kindred describes the turmoil and triumph of a news organization during the most chaotic media revolution in five hundred years.
Morning Miracle takes readers inside the heart of a legendary paper in transition from newsprint to the digital...
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eBook.
Hard Feelings
Reporting on the Pols, the Press, the People and the City
Written by Ken Auletta
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2011
Price: $2.99
Hard Feelings by Ken Auletta covers reporting on the pols, the press, the people, and the city. Read more >
Reporting on the Pols, the Press, the People and the City
Written by Ken Auletta
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2011
Price: $2.99
Hard Feelings by Ken Auletta covers reporting on the pols, the press, the people, and the city. Read more >
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The Sweetest Thing
A Boxer's Memoir
Written by Mischa Merz
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $18.95
Journalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfills a long-held ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinating journey she meets her idols, including Lucia Rijker of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary characters. Merz discovers... Read more >
A Boxer's Memoir
Written by Mischa Merz
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $18.95
Journalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfills a long-held ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinating journey she meets her idols, including Lucia Rijker of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary characters. Merz discovers... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Killing Game
Selected Writings by the author of Dark Alliance
Written by Gary Webb
Afterword by Robert Parry
Edited by Eric Webb
Foreword by Tom Loftus
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2011
Price: $19.95
Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It... Read more >
Selected Writings by the author of Dark Alliance
Written by Gary Webb
Afterword by Robert Parry
Edited by Eric Webb
Foreword by Tom Loftus
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2011
Price: $19.95
Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Censored 2000
The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories
Edited by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Tom Tomorrow
Introduction by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories
Edited by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Tom Tomorrow
Introduction by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Censored 2003
The Top 25 Censored Stories
Edited by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Tom Tomorrow
Introduction by Robert W. McChesney
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
The Top 25 Censored Stories
Edited by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Tom Tomorrow
Introduction by Robert W. McChesney
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Censored 2005
The Top 25 Censored Stories
Edited by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Tom Tomorrow
Introduction by Greg Palast
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
The Top 25 Censored Stories
Edited by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Tom Tomorrow
Introduction by Greg Palast
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Censored 2006
The Top 25 Censored Stories
Edited by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Tom Tomorrow
Introduction by Norman Solomon
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
The Top 25 Censored Stories
Edited by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Tom Tomorrow
Introduction by Norman Solomon
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Censored 2007
The Top 25 Censored Stories
Edited by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Tom Tomorrow
Introduction by Robert Jensen
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
The Top 25 Censored Stories
Edited by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Tom Tomorrow
Introduction by Robert Jensen
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Censored 2008
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006-07
Edited by Peter Phillips, Andrew Roth and Project Censored
Illustrated by John Jonik
Introduction by Dennis Loo
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006-07
Edited by Peter Phillips, Andrew Roth and Project Censored
Illustrated by John Jonik
Introduction by Dennis Loo
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Censored 2009
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08
Edited by Peter Phillips, Andrew Roth and Project Censored
Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Introduction by Cynthia McKinney
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08
Edited by Peter Phillips, Andrew Roth and Project Censored
Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Introduction by Cynthia McKinney
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Censored 2010
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008-09
Edited by Peter Phillips, Mickey Huff and Project Censored
Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Introduction by Dahr Jamail
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008-09
Edited by Peter Phillips, Mickey Huff and Project Censored
Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Introduction by Dahr Jamail
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Censored 2011
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009-10
Edited by Mickey Huff, Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Introduction by Kristina Borjesson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009-10
Edited by Mickey Huff, Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Introduction by Kristina Borjesson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Exorcising Terror
The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet
Written by Ariel Dorfman
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95
Renowned author Ariel Dorfman, obsessed for twenty-five years with the malignant shadow General Pinochet cast upon Chile and the world, followed every twist and turn of the four year old trial in Great Britain, Spain and Chile as well as in the U.S., the country that had created Pinochet. Told as... Read more >
The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet
Written by Ariel Dorfman
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95
Renowned author Ariel Dorfman, obsessed for twenty-five years with the malignant shadow General Pinochet cast upon Chile and the world, followed every twist and turn of the four year old trial in Great Britain, Spain and Chile as well as in the U.S., the country that had created Pinochet. Told as... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Homeland
Written by Dale Maharidge
Photographed by Michael Williamson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
Homeland is Pulitzer Prize winning author Maharidge's biggest and most ambitious book yet, weaving together the disparate and contradictory strands of contemporary American society-common decency alongside race rage, the range of dissenting voices, and the roots of discontent that defy political affiliation. Here are American families who can no longer pay... Read more >
Written by Dale Maharidge
Photographed by Michael Williamson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
Homeland is Pulitzer Prize winning author Maharidge's biggest and most ambitious book yet, weaving together the disparate and contradictory strands of contemporary American society-common decency alongside race rage, the range of dissenting voices, and the roots of discontent that defy political affiliation. Here are American families who can no longer pay... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
The Killing Game
Written by Gary Webb
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It... Read more >
Written by Gary Webb
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Project Censored Guide to Independent Media and Activism
Edited by Peter Phillips
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $10.95
The independent media are arguably more important than ever today, as corporate media’s line reads increasingly like a government press release rather than a free society’s analysis of the day’s important events. But there’s a lot to sort through: Independent newsmagazines and newspapers, local cable-TV access, and independent and microtransmitted radio... Read more >
Edited by Peter Phillips
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $10.95
The independent media are arguably more important than ever today, as corporate media’s line reads increasingly like a government press release rather than a free society’s analysis of the day’s important events. But there’s a lot to sort through: Independent newsmagazines and newspapers, local cable-TV access, and independent and microtransmitted radio... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
