Media Criticism


Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Propaganda
The Culture Industry
The Queer Art of Failure
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
The Medium is the Massage
Marshall McLuhan
In the "Republic," Plato vigorously attacked the oral, poetized form as a vehicle for communicating knowledge. He pleaded for a more precise method of communication and classification ("The Ideas"), one which would favor the investigation of facts, principles of reality, human nature, and conduct. What the Greeks meant by "poetry" was radically different from what we mean by poetry. Their "poetic" expression was a product of a collective psyche and mind. The mimetic form, a technique that exploi ...more
Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

If you not longer let the community hear all of it's significant voices - you begin to have; a single narrow view of: the problems of the society, of the solutions of society - and you begun soon or later overwhelmed by the society you don't understand. ...more
Ben Bagdikian

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