Media Ownership
- How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump's War On The MediaDeadspin.com, March 31, 2018.
- This is Sinclair, 'the most dangerous US company you've never heard of'TheGuardian.com, August 17, 2017
- These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media CompaniesForbes.com, June 1, 2016
- Who Owns WhatColumbia Journalism Review's guide to what the major media companies own.
- Interlocking DirectoratesFAIR -- see which corporations share members of boards of directors with major media companies.
Advertisers & Corporate Interests
- Media and AdvertisingConsiders audience as product vs. audience as consumer; political and corporate influences on news coverage; and other issues surrounding advertising and the media. GlobalIssues.org, 3/4/2012
- Spiked: Fighting in-house censorship when media managers can’t handle the truthBy an investigative journalist; an account of how stories can get "spiked" in order to appease corporate interests, with news coverage of tobacco companies as an example. American University School of Communication Investigative Reporting Workshop, 1/21/2015
- War or No War on Syria: Conflict of Interest of “Experts” who Commented in Favor of Military InterventionReport documents the industry ties of Stephen Hadley, 21 other media commentators, and seven think tanks that participated in the media debate around Syria. Public Accountability Initiative, 10/11/2013
Government
- Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden HandNew York Times, April 20, 2008.
- Russian news may be biased – but so is much western mediaPiers Robinson, The Guardian, August 2, 2016.
- Media ManipulationGlobalIssues.org, 2006.
Media Criticism: Suggested Readings
Understanding media: the extensions of man by Call Number: P90.M26ISBN: 1584230738Publication Date: 1964This 1964 classic made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.
Manufacturing consent: the political economy of the mass media by Call Number: P95.82.U6H47 1988 (+ 2002 edition online)ISBN: 0679720340Publication Date: 1988An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news.
The New Media Monopoly by Call Number: P96.E25 B34 2004ISBN: 9780807061879Publication Date: 2004
Rich Media, Poor Democracy by Call Number: P95.82.U6 M38 1999 (+ 2015 ed. online)ISBN: 9781620970706Publication Date: 2016-03-01
