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The Problem of the Media: U.S. communication politics in the 21st century

by: Robert W. McChesney

ISBN: 1583671056 paperback

 

Recently published in 2004, McChesney exposes the reality of journalism in the United States of America.  He outlines how censorship is accomplished in the media, how advertising dollars, self-censorship, and media conglomerates are stifling journalistic freedom.  Publishing is characterized as increasingly elitist, with fewer academic journals or venues for debate accessible to the populace. The book summarizes the impact of the 1996 Telecommunications Act and the 2003 uproar against the FCC 's move to further deregulate media ownership rules. You need to read this book, if you are to understand how mainstream journalists currently operate in America, and how the marketplace of ideas, is being oppressed by conservative politics and powerful interest groups.

 

 

 

JOURNALISM / INVESTIGATIVE

 

Altered Evidence: how the justice dept. framed a journalist & his wife

by: James D. Sanders

published in 1999 without ISBN/ difficult to find

 

Altered Evidence is highly detailed, at times painfully so. It exposes facts, names government sources, provides pictures and NTSB computer printouts that were 'buried' by the FBI concerning the causes of the crash of TWA flight 800.  Sanders deluges us with proof that; the NTSB and FBI covered up a U.S. military presence off the coast of New York, at the time of the 'accident' by altering radar data; that they altered evidence at the reconstruction hangar in order to hide evidence of projectile damage; and hid evidence of explosive's residue on the plane. Eyewitness accounts that described a missile projectile that struck the aircraft just before it exploded in midair, were ignored by the investigators. After taking off from a NYC airport, on July 17, 1996, the plane explodes minutes later, all 230 people aboard the Boeing 747 die.   Sanders, a retired police officer, who became an investigative journalist dedicated to exposing government wrong doing, charged the Clinton administration and the justice department with complicity in a cover-up 'at the highest levels' of government. The government's investigation cost 40 million dollars, and never properly identified the cause of the crash. 

 

Sanders, his wife and many independent investigators, and eyewitnesses were harassed, intimidated and framed with 'crimes' by government investigators, in order to silence and discredit them. The book also details how several reputable and honest government employees were targets of smear campaigns because they would not 'go along' with the cover-up. The book provides a chilling glimpse into the power of the State.  

 

 

 

 

 

Crossing the Rubicon

by: Michael Ruppert, 2004

ISBN: 0865715408

 

Michael Ruppert, a former undercover policeman, has researched the events of 9-11 and in this book presents the evidence for a massive conspiracy, that reaches into the Oval Office.  Ruppert suggests that 'Operation Northwoods' was put into effect to rationalize a war on terror which was manufactured by U.S. government officials.  Producing government documents, Ruppert lays bare the real possibility that our own government and its officials, including then Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, were involved.  Ruppert also uncovers complicity by the Israeli and British governments in some of the events that led up to the tragedy.

 

'Crossing the Rubicon' is a detective story, that amid all the details is frightening to the bone. It cites Richard Cheney, the nation's Vice-President as the key player, behind the scenes, who orchestrated the 9-11 attacks.  The documentation and Ruppert's  conclusions are shocking yet plausible, and raise the very real prospect that America has experienced its own version of the Reichstag fire (which gave the Nazis the excuse to clamp down on civil liberties in Germany prior to WW II).  If there is one book that you must read this year--this is the one.

 

 


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