商品簡介
Essays by media scholars, critics, and journalists explore how corporate owners' conflicting interests and the bottom line have reshaped mainstream news coverage, doing away with independent investigations and becoming largely a paid political announcement. Topics under consideration include methods of media manipulation and propagandizing; the claim of liberal media bias; the threat from big media to free access to information on the Internet; the effects of media consolidation on actors, producers, agents, managers, and lawyers in the film industry; and the standardization of music and reduction of local content in radio. Contributors include critic Eric Alterman, political analyst Michael Parenti, former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, and public interest advocate Cheryl Leanza. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Elliot D. Cohen (Fort Pierce, FL), Ph.D., Brown University, is chair of the Department of Humanities and professor of philosophy at Indian River Community College, editor of the International Journal of Applied Philosophy and the International Journal of Philosophical Practice, the director of the Institute of Critical Thinking, and the author or editor of nine books. He is also a founder and executive director of the American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy as well as an ethics consultant for several health care facilities.
