PANUPS: Resource Pointer #390 (Media, Muckrakers and Big Busines

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PANUPS: Resource Pointer #390 (Media, Muckrakers and Big Busines

 

esource Pointer #390 (Media, Muckrakers and Big Business)

July 8, 2005

 

For copies of the following resources, please contact the appropriate

publishers or organizations directly.

 

*News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and its Threat to

Democracy, 2005* Edited by Elliot D. Cohen. Essays on the state of

corporate ownership and control of U.S. media. Argues that the press

has become a docile instrument of governmental authority and big

money. Reviews recent Federal Communications Commission rulings on

deregulation and media ownership and suggests a series of remedies,

including legal challenges and legislation to bring structural change.

319 pages. $26.00. Prometheus Books, 59 John Glenn Drive, Amherst, New

York 14228-2197; email MRogers; website

http://www.prometheusbooks.com/.

 

*On the Rampage: Corporate Predators and the Destruction of Democracy,

2005* Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman. Chronicles corporate

criminals and the politicians they influence, in the spirit of past

muckrakers such as Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and I.F. Stone. 276

pages. $16.95. Contact Common Courage Press, 121 Red Barn Road,

Monroe, ME 04951; phone (800) 497-3207; fax (207) 525-3068; email

orders-info; website

http://www.commoncouragepress.com/.

 

*Battling Big Business: Countering Greenwash, Infiltration and Other

Forms of Corporate Bullying, 2002* Edited by Eveline Lubbers. Analyzes

a wide rage of corporate counter-strategies, from relatively innocent

public relations measures to complete intelligence operations, and

offers tools to recognize manipulative strategies and counter them.

224 pages. $17.95. Contact Common Courage Press, 121 Red Barn Road,

Monroe, ME 04951; phone (800) 497-3207; fax (207) 525-3068; email

orders-info; website

http://www.commoncouragepress.com/.

 

*Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering, 2001*

Edited by Gene Roberts. 395 pages. A series of essays documenting the

blitz of newspaper consolidation that has corporatized and radically

transformed journalism and newspaper publishing in the U.S. Emphasizes

the impacts on news coverage. 395 pages. $19.95. Contact The

University of Arkansas Press, 201 Ozark Avenue, Fayetteville, AR

72701; phone (800) 626-0090; fax (479) 575-6044; website

http://www.uapress.com/.

 

*Multinational Monitor, website*http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/.

Includes articles originally featured in the magazine Multinational

Monitor on global corporations. Tracks corporate activity, especially

in the Global South, focusing on the export of hazardous substances,

worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.

Contact Multinational Monitor, P.O. Box 19405, Washington, DC 20036;

phone (202) 387-8030; fax (202) 234-5176; email monitor.

 

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