Minnesota Rag
Written by Fred W. Friendly
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $7.99
Minnesota Rag takes the reader on a tour of the underside of a dark period in Minnesota's past, one filled with crooked public officials, vengeful gangsters, and yellow journalists. Featuring notorious characters such as Jay M. Near, racist and antilabor publisher of Minneapolis's Saturday Press, pioneering newsman Fred W. Friendly weaves...
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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...
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Joseph Anton
A Memoir
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $30.00
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPageOn February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death&rdquo...
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Joseph Anton
A Memoir
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $15.99
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPageOn February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death&rdquo...
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Joseph Anton
A Memoir
Written by Salman Rushdie
Read by Sam Dastor
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $60.00
On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word
fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called
The Satanic Verses, which was accused of...
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Joseph Anton
A Memoir
Written by Salman Rushdie
Read by Sam Dastor
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $25.00
On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word
fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called
The Satanic Verses, which was accused of...
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Muzzled
The Assault on Honest Debate
Written by Juan Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $15.00
“You can’t say that. You’re fired.” Prize-winning Washington journalist Juan Williams was unceremoniously dismissed by NPR for speaking his mind and saying what many Americans feel—that he gets nervous when boarding airplanes with passengers dressed in Muslim garb. NPR banished the veteran journalist in an act of political correctness that ultimately sparked...
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Muzzled
The Assault on Honest Debate
Written by Juan Williams
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $24.00
“You can’t say that. You’re fired.” Prize-winning Washington journalist Juan Williams was unceremoniously dismissed by NPR for speaking his mind and saying what many Americans feel—that he gets nervous when boarding airplanes with passengers dressed in Muslim garb. NPR banished the veteran journalist in an act of political correctness that ultimately sparked...
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Muzzled
The Assault on Honest Debate
Written by Juan Williams
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $11.99
“You can’t say that. You’re fired.” Prize-winning Washington journalist Juan Williams was unceremoniously dismissed by NPR for speaking his mind and saying what many Americans feel—that he gets nervous when boarding airplanes with passengers dressed in Muslim garb. NPR banished the veteran journalist in an act of political correctness that ultimately sparked...
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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...
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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...
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Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy
Written by Robert W. McChesney
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
"In this passionate and strikingly lucid essay, Robert McChesney makes clear why all of us should be alarmed about the effects of media mergers on the future of American democracy. This is a must reading for anyone who wants to get a quick understanding of this troubling trend."—Susan J. Douglas, author...
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Media Control
The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Written by Noam Chomsky
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass...
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Microradio & Democracy
(Low) Power to the People
Written by Greg Ruggiero
Foreword by Robert W. McChesney
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $5.95
Microradio and Democracy discusses the role of citizen access to communications in a democratic society, and how diversity, localism, and core political speech are undermined by corporate control of the public airwaves. Ruggiero examines the emergence of microradio activism in recent court cases, and the links between the microradio struggle and...
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