Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media

“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.