This text describes in detail the recent rapid growth and crossborder activities and linkages of an industry of large global media conglomerates. It also assesses the significance of the ongoing deregulation and convergence of the global media and telecommunications systems and the rise of the Internet. The authors argue that the most important features of this globalization process are the implantation, consolidation and concentration of an advertisement-based commercial media and parallel weakening of public broadcasting systems worldwide, with negative consequences on the "public sphere".

Global Media: The Missionaries of Global Capitalism

Politics & Social Sciences

Herman, Edward S.

McChesney, Robert Waterman

Social Sciences

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

CHOMSKY, Noam.

Pantheon

Manufacturing Consent

Examines the political role played by the media in shaping events, rather than just reporting on them, and discusses the find distinctions between news and propaganda

THE TERRORISM INDUSTRY

Politics & Government

Deep and detailed research into the workings of corporate enables Professor Herman to throw considerable light on how the board of directors operates, how important outside directors are, how new members are selected, and how multiple directorships interlock the large corporations. Throughout the book the author contrasts the power of the managers with that of other interest groups - bankers, family - and he concludes that power lies with the managers. But this has not changed the basic objectives of the corporation - the pursuit of growth and profits - nor has it enhanced social responsibility. After thorough investigation Edward Herman concludes that government regulation has done surprisingly little to reduce the autonomy of the corporation. Just as the influence of bankers and investors has been resisted, so has the effect of regulation. Improved communications and controls, geographic dispersion, and the enhanced adaptability and mobility of the large corporation have all played a part in maintaining corporate power and managerial control. Corporate Control, Corporate Power will be essential reading for executives, policy makers, regulators, and all those concerned to make the corporation more responsible and accountable.

Corporate Control, Corporate Power: A Twentieth Century Fund Study

Business & Money

Economics

Cambridge University Press

Biography & History

An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news.

The "Terrorism" Industry

DEGRADED CAPABILITY: THE MEDIA AND THE KOSOVO CRISIS

The media served a highly partisan and propagandistic role in Nato’s Kosovo war, uncritically reproducing official spin in a way that was incompatible with their proclaimed democratic role as objective purveyors of information. Degraded Capability is the first book to integrate a critical interpretation of Western policy toward the former Yugoslavia with analysis of media coverage of the Kosovo crisis and war. The first part of the book deals with the war itself and the build-up to it, placing this in the context of earlier Western intervention in Yugoslavia. Part two discusses key issues raised by the media coverage, including the demonisation of the enemy, and the role of CNN. In the final section, contributors analyse how the war was reported in different countries around the world, including the United States, Britain, Germany, India, Greece, Russia, and France. The book offers an important corrective to the hysteria and misinformation that permeated media coverage. Subjects covered include the role of the internet, the changing media-military relationship, the depiction and definition of ‘war crimes,’ and how Yugoslav television was presented as a legitimate military target. Contributors include John Pilger, Edward S. Herman, Phil Hammond, Diana Johnstone and Jim Naureckas.

Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis

History

Hammond, Philip

Europe

Pluto Press

In this second volume of The Political Economy of Human Rights, Chomsky and Herman consider Western ideological distortion of reality following US aggression in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

After the Cataclysm: Volume II: The Political Economy of Human Rights (Chomsky Perspectives)

Asia

Pluto Press (UK)

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