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Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media Paperback – August 25, 1998

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"Committed, eloquent writings that plumb teh psychological and political complexities of mass-mediated experience." --San Francisco Chronicle

"An essential text." --Utne Reader

"More than helping to detect bias, "Unreliable Sources" tells the stories behind the stories called news. It should help build a national constituency for liberating media from all major constraints-- corporate as well as governmental." --George Gerbner, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Communications, The Annenberg School for Communications

"You gotta love these guys. Not only have Lee and Solomon written a timely consumer primer on conservative bias in reporting, they've done it with humor." --Washington Journalism Review

A vital handbook for deciphering widespread media bias. "Unreliable Sources" dissects news coverage of a wide range of issues-- taxes, the Persian Gulf, social security, abortion, drugs, environmental pollution, U.S.-Soviet relations, terrorism, the Third World-- and exposes the key stories that have been censored or glossed over by major media.

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    August 25, 1998
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  6. ISBN-10
    0818405619
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"Committed, eloquent writings that plumb teh psychological and political complexities of mass-mediated experience." --San Francisco Chronicle

"An essential text." --Utne Reader

"More than helping to detect bias, "Unreliable Sources" tells the stories behind the stories called news. It should help build a national constituency for liberating media from all major constraints-- corporate as well as governmental." --George Gerbner, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Communications, The Annenberg School for Communications

"You gotta love these guys. Not only have Lee and Solomon written a timely consumer primer on conservative bias in reporting, they've done it with humor." --Washington Journalism Review

A vital handbook for deciphering widespread media bias. "Unreliable Sources" dissects news coverage of a wide range of issues-- taxes, the Persian Gulf, social security, abortion, drugs, environmental pollution, U.S.-Soviet relations, terrorism, the Third World-- and exposes the key stories that have been censored or glossed over by major media.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kensington Publishing Corp.; First Edition (August 25, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 452 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0818405619
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0818405617
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.02 x 9 inches
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    Norman Solomon is an American journalist, media critic, author and activist. His latest book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, was published in June 2023. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the book “a powerful, necessary indictment of efforts to disguise the human toll of American foreign policy.”

    Solomon's dozen other books include War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. The Los Angeles Times called it “brutally persuasive” and “a must-read for those who would like greater context with their bitter morning coffee, or to arm themselves for the debates about Iraq that are still to come.” The newspaper's reviewer added: “Solomon is a formidable thinker and activist.”

    Solomon wrote the nationally syndicated "Media Beat" weekly column from 1992 to 2009. His book Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You (co-authored with foreign correspondent Reese Erlich) was published in January 2003, two months before the invasion of Iraq.

    A collection of Solomon’s columns won the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language.

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Paul J. Alleva
5.0 out of 5 stars and sick and tired of feeling like a powerless victim
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2015
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This eye-opening book examines the many small, subtle ways the mainstream corporate press distorts the news, often by reporting only part of it. Unfortunately, it is only after we have learned the truth that we can see how that truth was hidden or distorted. The press is supposed to protect us from government deception by digging for the truth; too often, however, because most newspapers, newsmagazines, and broadcast radio and television news stations are now owned by powerful corporations with plenty of vested interests, reporters fail to ask the questions they must to uncover the truth, telling us instead whatever those in power want us to believe. We are left with the conviction that we must unearth the truth on our own, one shovelful at a time, consulting alternative sources of news. (The authors list alternative news sources in the appendix.) We must be the ones who hold our leaders accountable for their decisions. If we do not, we will face a future of scandal after scandal, coverup after coverup, war after unjustifiable war. This book is must reading for anyone who is sick and tired of being lied to, and sick and tired of feeling like a powerless victim.
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Ali Darwish
5.0 out of 5 stars A highly reliable source book on unreliable sources in news media
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2011
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With media and communication studies becoming more and more popular in both academic and professional worlds, awareness of issues of integrity, validity and reliability of the news has become critical for both student and media worker. As journalism undergoes a shift of paradigm that no longer considers the traditional values of news relevant in the race and chase for political, cultural and economic supremacy worldwide, detecting unreliable sources and bias in news media becomes all the more critical in a world that is flooded by 24-hour news television networks that rely mostly on secondary and tertiary sources and news feeds from the Big Four (Reuters, AP, AFP and UPI). Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media,by Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon is a source book ahead of its time. Published in 1990, this book stands out as a valuable guide for students, teachers and professionals of news media in a world that is rapidly changing. The book consists of 12 well-written chapters, supported by real-life examples. These chapters are sorted out into four parts: (1) The Story behind the Story; (2) The Media Elite; (3) Domestic Routines; (4) International Intrigues. Lee and Solomon skillfully review and analyze news media practices that produce bias and and create a hyper-reality. For those determined to know how to detect untruths in news media, this rich book is a prerequisite.
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Edgar Hopida
5.0 out of 5 stars useful guide to analyzing media at the institutional level
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2003
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This book carefully in no nonsense language, analyzes the media bias and the institution of the media and how it operates and how the final product gets aired on news televison or in print. This along with Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky is a must if people want to know the truth about the media
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jw
5.0 out of 5 stars essential reading
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2010
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Essential reading for the reasons why our media is so awful, biased and corrupted by corporate and government interests.

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Steve Bunten
1.0 out of 5 stars Unreliable Writing!
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2002
First, I was surprised to find out that the media is as conservative and Republican as it apparently is. One would certainly not guess it from the reporting that is done. And what was really lacking in this book was any kind of even handed approach to bias in the news. I'd grant that there is bias towards the right in some reporting. But by reading this book you'd think that there was only far-right leaning reporting only with nary a lean to the left in any news reports.
One point raised by the authors more than once was the use in news reports of unnamed sources and few hand-picked named "expert" sources. But throughout their diatribe against the right-wing controlled media they used many of these same techniques with many an unnamed source as well as the (over)use of a small number of "expert" sources used to prove their points.
I was truly looking for a book that helped in understanding and, as they say, detecting biases in the news media. What I came away with in this book was that it was written by some far left wing fanatics (should have guessed based on the foreword being written by Ed Asner) who did not want to give a balanced treatment to this topic (who but someone like Asner could have guessed that the NY Times is really a Republican mouthpiece!)
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Mr. Stephen Hendry
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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