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      Chris's News and Views

      Media analysis and criticism from a former TV news anchor, reporter and meteorologist. Also includes links to media research groups and organizations committed to creating a more democratic, citzen-based media environment.
      http://members.tripod.com/chris.shumway/

      The Television Thing

      This article summarizes The Sound Bite Society, a study of television and ideology. (Dissent Summer 1995) By Jeffery Scheuer
      http://www.jscheuer.com/dissent.htm

      Hold On to Your Phone Bill -- It's Merger Time

      Commentary on lack of FCC concern about the effects of consolidation of telephone and broadcasting services on consumer interests and democracy. From Mother Jones.
      http://www.motherjones.com/fotc/fotc6.html

      Necessary Illusions -- Online Book by Noam Chmosky

      Commentaries contend the "free press" serves the needs of those in power, rather than free speech and democracy.
      http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/ni/ni-contents.html

      Meditations on Media -- Jane W. Prettyman

      An independent critique of commercial media's effects on democracy and society by editor of the Real News Pages website.
      http://www.rain.org/~openmind//jane.htm

      Bloodbath in the District of Columbia

      An essay from UnquietMind.com about the destructiveness of the Washington scandal culture.
      http://unquietmind.com/bloodbath.html

      McChesney's

      Article that critcizes the effect of commercial corporate media on society, and that calls for reform that brings diversity of ownership and access. By Robert McChesney from The Boston Review.
      http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR23.3/mcchesney.html

      A New Years's Resolution For The Right

      Conservative commentators Brent Bozell and Michael Medved contend that a challenge for the right is overcoming the fact that television's emotional nature inherently favors liberals rather than the logic of conservatism.
      https://secure.mediaresearch.org/columns/news/col19981229.html

      Ben Bagdikian Interview

      Interview with media analyst about effect of corporate media ownership, using tobacco issue as example. From PBS Frontline.
      http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/bagdikian1.html

      Tabloids, Talk Radio, and the Future of News

      Technology's Impact on Journalism by Annenberg Senior Fellow Ellen Hume
      http://www.ellenhume.com/articles/tabloids_contents.html

      Consent, American Style

      Analysis and commentary by Steve Mizrach about manipulation of the public through the media. Based on views of Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, and Ben Bagdikian.
      http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/Consent_AmerStyle.html
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