Research Catalog

Title

Democracy's oxygen : how corporations control the news / James Winter.

Author

Winter, James P.

Publication

Montréal : Black Rose Books, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

xxix, 199 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• James Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
• The news media mythology about dedication to the public interest is contrasted with substantial evidence that the news is largely a corporate/management product. The result is "Media Think": group-think on a vast scale which pervades the media and through which they promote narrow ideological dogmas about the world around us, such as: globalization, privatization, social cuts and deficit hysteria.
• This book presents the hard facts that illustrate the complicity between government and corporate media interests in Canada.

Subject

• Mass media > Canada
• Journalism > Canada
• News agencies > Canada
• Médias > Canada
• Journalisme > Canada
• Presse, Agences de > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

1. Mediasaurus -- 2. The Black Market -- 3. Paul Desmarais and Power -- 4. The Public Interest -- 5. News as a Management Product -- 6. Media Think -- 7. Project Censored Canada -- 8. Patterns in Under-Reported Stories -- 9. Conclusions -- A. Media Corporation Assets -- B. Media-Corporate Director Board Interlocks -- C. Dailies by Chain Ownership -- D. Alternative Media -- E. 1995 Compensation for CEOs -- F. Newspaper Ownership by Province -- G. Selected Wealthy Canadians.

ISBN

• 1551640600 (pbk.)
• 1551640619 (bound)

LCCN

cn 96900293

OCLC

ocm35939094

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries