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Language
English
Description
"Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son Ben when he asks if he can run ahead. It's an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry--until Ben vanishes. Police are called, search parties go out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, feels herself coming undone. As hours and then days pass without a sign of Ben, everyone who knew him is called into question, from...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Behind most major political stories in the modern era, there is an agenda; an effort by opposition researchers, spin doctors, and outside interests to destroy an idea or a person. The tactic they use is the Smear. Every day, Americans are influenced by the Smear without knowing it. Paid forces cleverly shape virtually every image you cross. Maybe you read that Donald Trump is a racist misogynist, or saw someone on the news mocking the Bernie Sanders...
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The news media and its role in society are topics of conversation and debate in today's world. News Literacy looks inside newsrooms, exploring key moments in the history of journalism and explaining how today's journalists work. Examine how news is presented, and learn how advertising, online algorithms, and other modern trends affect the way we experience news. Investigate the phenomenon of 'fake news, ' and discover the tools that can be used to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The 2016 US presidential election introduced a new term to the media lexicon. The Fake News Phenomenon examines the spread of bogus news sources, the reasons they exist, and the difference between media bias and "fake news." Readers are also provided with tips for how to discern the credibility of a news source. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject" --
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines Rupert Murdoch's Fox News media empire. Takes an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know. Examines how the FCC helped Murdoch break the rules to establish a fourth network in the United States. The film explores the impact on society when media is controlled by one person. A system was created to monitor Fox News 24 hours a day for months to discover exactly how...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call...
7) Al-Jazeera: the story of the network that is rattling governments and redefining modern journalism
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
viii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same news without any particular point of view. Today we have a much broader array of choices, including cable channels offering a partisan take. With partisan programs gaining in popularity, some argue that they are polarizing American politics, while others counter that only a tiny portion of the population...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
viii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Late on the night of October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one-year-old gay college student, left a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged 'strangers,' Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that the mountain biker who discovered his battered frame mistook him for a Halloween scarecrow. Overnight,...
Author
Publisher
Polity
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the mass media's significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. In this new edition, Max McCombs extends his previous synthesis of hundreds of studies carried out on this central role of the mass media in the shaping of public opinion. Across the world, the mass media strongly influences how we picture public affairs. In describing this media influence on what we...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the North African desert to the bloody stalemate in Italy, from the London blitz to the D-Day beaches, a group of highly courageous and extremely talented American journalists reported the war against Nazi Germany for a grateful audience. Based on a wealth of previously untapped primary sources, War Beat, Europe provides the first comprehensive account of what these reporters witnessed, what they were allowed to publish, and how their reports...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America's farm-reared daughters are conspicuously absent from popular film, television, and literature. In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Zachary Michael Jack follows the fascinating story of...
Author
Publisher
WND Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author, a childhood friend of Hillary Clinton's husband Billy, talks about Hillary Clinton's political career and why she thinks a second Clinton presidency would be a disaster.
Kyle, a childhood friend of Hillary Clinton's husband Billy, had a decades-long affair with him that lasted despite marriages and politics all the way to the threshold of the White House. Now she pulls no punches in describing the way the media makes Clinton stories disappear,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xx, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems galvanized the Soviet population and inspired leftist activists around the world. In the first book to examine the cultural products and production methods of the Stalin cult, Jan Plamper reconstructs a hidden history linking...
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality. . .and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening." So wrote George Orwell in his novel "1984" a striking similarity to the current state of civic cluelessness. "1984" is no longer a date in the future. This documentary points out that today in America, media outlets are owned by five or six corporations, and the likes of Rupert Murdoch, GE,...