Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media

M. Lee

ISBN 10: 081840521X / ISBN 13: 9780818405211

Published by Lyle Stuart August 1990, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media
• Publisher: Lyle Stuart August 1990
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081840521X
• ISBN 13: 9780818405211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: USED Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • SOCIOLOGY Media

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Synopsis

Argues that the public accountability of the mass media is decreasing, discusses the implications of this trend, and provides guidelines for detecting bias and coverup

About the Author

Martin A. Lee is the author of four books, including most recently "Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana" "Medical, Recreational and Scientific". He is the cofounder of the media watch group FAIR and the director of Project CBD, a medical science information service. He is also the author of "Acid Dreams" and "The Beast Reawakens", and his writing has appeared in many publications, including "The Washington Post", "The Los Angeles Times", "Harper s Magazine", "Le Monde Diplomatique", "Rolling Stone", "The Nation", Salon.com, HuffingtonPost.com, and TheDailyBeast.com.

Darrien Lee, a graduate of Tennessee State University, is a two-time "Essence" bestselling author with four published works with Strebor Books. She has been featured in several periodicals, including "Romantic Times" magazine and the N"ashville Tennessean." She lives in LaVergne, Tennessee, with her husband and two daughters. Visit www.darrienlee.com

Norman Solomon is a freelance writer and journalist, and a regular contributor to the Jewish Chronicle. He is a Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. His previous publications include Judaism and World Religion and he contributed to The Oxford Companion
to the Jewish Religion.
Actor EDWARD ASNER is known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", and later continued in a spinoff series, "Lou Grant".