Mass Media


Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Propaganda
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
The Medium is the Massage
The Society of the Spectacle
Fahrenheit 451
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Mythologies
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
David Quammen
That constitutes a chastening reminder for someone like myself, with a bias in favor of the written page and a sour prejudice against mass-market video: a reminder that, although images can be deceptive, they don't stand convicted alone. Writing is just another form of concoction. Words can lie too. You can trust me on this, probably. ...more
David Quammen, Wild Thoughts from Wild Places

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The news is glorified gossip.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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