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O'Keefe, James

Summary: "This ... work of nonfiction explores the philosophy of a new mass movement of truth-tellers; its ethics, impacts on privacy, guidelines about deception, the discovery process of litigation, and the tension between secrecy and transparency--compiled from over a decade of investigative reporting coupled with a vast reference of philosophical research that pertains to the trials and tribulations...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 O'KE

Schieffer, Bob

Summary: "We are in the midst of a communications revolution. We have access to more information than at any time in history. But are we more informed or just overwhelmed by so much information we can't process? In [this book], legendary television journalist Bob Schieffer examines today's journalism and those who practice it -- how they see their profession, how it has been changed by new technology,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 SCH

Roland, James

Summary: "It can be hard to know what to believe, especially when what looks or sounds like a legitimate news story is tainted with bias and opinion or is riddled with flat-out lies and disinformation. Media bias and disinformation are two different things, but they often share the same purpose: to manipulate how members of the public think and act rather than allow people to make up their own minds...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 ROL

Roth, Andrew Lee

Summary: 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 to be top features on the nightly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 CEN

De Botton, Alain.

Summary: Presents a philosophical assessment of the role of news in today's gadget-driven societies, exploring subjects ranging from politics and crime to celebrities and paparazzi while considering how the news shapes everyday worldviews.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 BOT

Kurtz, Howard

Summary: "According to the media, Donald Trump could never become president. Now many are on a mission to prove he shouldn't be president. The Trump administration and the press are at war -- and as in any war, the first casualty has been truth. Bestselling author Howard Kurtz, host of Fox News's Media Buzz and former Washington Post columnist, offers a stunning exposé of how supposedly objective...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 KUR

Attkisson, Sharyl

Summary: "The five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled and The Smear uncovers how partisan bias and gullibility are destroying American journalism"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 071 ATT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult Attkisson

Moyers, Bill D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 MOY

Levin, Mark R. (Mark Reed)

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Summary: Unfreedom of the Press is not just another book about the press. Levin shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press from within: "not government oppression or suppression," he writes, but self-censorship, group-think, bias by omission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo-events, and outright lies as news. With the depth of historical background...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 LEV

O'Keefe, James

Summary: "Controversial ambush journalist James O'Keefe shows the reader what happens when a young citizen journalist challenges some of America's most powerful and protected organizations"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 071.3 OKE

Huff, Mickey

Summary: The annual yearbook from Project Censored features the year's most underreported news stories, striving to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in corporate-controlled media outlets. Censored 2016 features the top-25 most underreported stories, as voted by scholars, journalists, and activists across the country and around the world, as well as chapters exploring timely issues from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 CEN

Summary: This is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually leading to his impeachment trial.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HUN

Kostyuchenko, Elena

Summary: "An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and a fearless cri de cœur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritarian turn To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless and unrelenting attempt to document Putin's Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 KOS

Attkisson, Sharyl

Summary: A CBS reporter reveals how she has been electronically surveilled while digging deep into the Obama Administration and its scandals, and offers an incisive critique of her industry and the shrinking role of investigative journalism in today's media.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 ATT

Carpenter, Amanda B.

Summary: In Gaslighting America, Carpenter breaks down Trump's formula, showing why it's practically foolproof, playing his victims, the media, the Democrats, and the Republican fence-sitters perfectly. She traces how this tactic started with Nixon, gained traction with Bill Clinton, and exploded under Trump

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 CAR

Karem, Brian J.

Summary: "Blending his experiences as a veteran reporter with trenchant analysis of the erosion of trust between the press and the government in the past 40 years, Free the Press gives readers a unique perspective on the challenges facing journalism, as well as the rise of hostility between these institutions"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 KAR

Summary: Independent journalists like Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Matt Taibbi are changing the face of journalism, providing investigative, adversarial alternatives to mainstream, corporate news outlets. Cameras follow as they expose government and corporate deception; just as the ground-breaking independent journalist I.F. Stone did decades ago.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ALL

Summary: Some stories are simply too good to be true. In this program, John Kampfner, political editor for the New Statesman (London), skewers heroic reports of the ambush, capture, and rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, calling them misrepresentations designed to bolster wavering support for the Iraq War. Kampfner also scrutinizes the controversial practice of embedding members of the news media in...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: This program looks at the impact of the visual image on news and politics in the electing of Presidents and the governing of America. While projecting a self-serving image has long been an understandable part of American politics, the 1980s produced a marriage of sophisticated news manipulation by political candidates and a willingness of the news media to dance to the candidate's tune. To what...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: The Bush administration marketed and sold the war in Iraq to the American people. How and why did the press buy it, and what does that say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from propaganda? In this program, veteran journalist Bill Moyers, award-winning producer Kathleen Hughes, and their investigative team piece together the reporting and political spin that...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: The Center for Media and Public Affairs reports that during the 1990s the homicide rate in the U.S. dropped 50 percent, yet homicide news coverage increased by an incredible 700 percent. In this program, the Center's Bob Lichter and the Threat Assessment Group's Greg McCrary join ABC News anchor John Stossel to examine some of the factors that contribute to the exaggeration of risks and dangers...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: In this comprehensive analysis of the plight of journalist Peter Greste and his Al Jazeera colleagues, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed, Foreign Correspondent speaks to Greste's family members who are fighting to highlight his cause and the injustice of the trio's imprisonment. Also featured are the key players in a wider developing story: that of a battle between Egyptian authorities, and news...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2014

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Araton, Harvey.

Summary: "In times of change, American novelists return to old themes. In Cold Type--as in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman--a son and his father struggle to hold onto what they think is right. It's mid-1990s; and "cold type" technology, a.k.a. computerized typesetting, wreaks havoc among workers in the newspaper industry. A fabulously wealthy Briton buys the New York City Trib and immediately...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Consortium Book Sales & Dist 2014

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Summary: "Shadows of Liberty reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups, and corporate control. Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes a journey through the darker corridors of the US media, where global conglomerates call the shots. For decades, their overwhelming influence has distorted news journalism and compromised its values.Tracing the story of media...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHA

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