SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON
CRIME and/or MEDIA
NOTE: This is by no means a comprehensive list. More items will be added as I come across them.
JOURNALS
Columbia Journalism Review
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Journalism Studies
Lies of our Times
Media Culture and Society
Media Studies Journal, formerly Gannett Center Journal
Newspaper Research Journal
Ryerson Review of Journalism
The Walrus
Journal of Advertising Research.
Canadian Press NewsWire
BOOKS
Robert McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times, media critic and author
Mark Crispin Miller, Boxed In: The Culture of TV, media critic and the author
Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988, New York: Penguin Books
Neil McKendrik, John Brewer, J.H. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer Society, Hutchinson 1983
Stifling Debate: Canadian Newspapers and Nuclear Power,
Michael Clow (St. Thomas)This study of nuclear coverage in four dailies in Ontario and New Brunswick finds that it is the promoters, not the opponents, of nuclear energy that overwhelmingly dominate news coverage.
More Perishable than Lettuce or Tomatoes:
Labour Law Reform and Toronto's Newspapers, Edward T. Silva (Toronto)This book presents an in-depth analysis of the "unbalanced" treatment by the four largest Toronto dailies of the Ontario NDP's 1992 proposed labour reform law.
Deadlines and Diversity
: Journalism Ethics in a Changing World, Valerie Alia, Brian Brennan & Barry Hoffmaster eds.The authors in this collection have first-hand knowledge of what it means to be journalists in today's world. They address issues - coverage of the arts, sports, First Nations, and the evolution of journalism in Quebec - which have received scant attention in other texts.
Constructing Danger: The Mis/Representation of Crime in the News
, Chris McCormickThis book examines different criminal topics through looking at actual news articles and analyzing how subtle distortions creep into crime coverage. The underlying perspective is that the news not only reports crime but socially constructs it, reproducing crime myths in the process. This book is sure to change the way you think about crime in the news.
The
Perfect Machine: TV in the Nuclear Age, Joyce Nelson
In The Perfect Machine Nelson explores the hidden and bizarre roots of a
medium that has assumed extraordinary, institutionalized power over our daily
lives.
McLuhan's
Children: The Greenpeace Message and the Media, Stephen Dale
McLuhan's Children is an inside look at Greenpeace's rise to global prominence
through its savvy use of mass media imagery. From the flamboyant,
guerilla-theatre approach to the emergence of environmentalism as a dominant
international issue.
Poor
Bashing, Jean Swanson
The special language of poor-bashing disguises the real causes of poverty, hurts
and excludes people who are poor, cheapens the labour of people who have jobs,
and takes the pressure off the rich. Swanson, a twenty-five year veteran of
anti-poverty work, exposes the ideology of poor-bashing in a clear, forceful
style. She examines how media "poornography" operates when reporters
cover poverty stories. She also reveals how government and corporate clients use
poor-bashing focus groups.
WEBSITES
www.freepress.net www.youngmedia.orgwww.mediawatch.org
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/ Columbia Journalism Review www.globalissues.org http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/giants Public Broadcasting Service (US public TV/Radio) http://www.fair.org Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting http://www.doadvn.com/news_facets.html quotes about advertising from all sides
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