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"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."
--Malcom X


RESOURCES

For a listing of "who owns what" as far as media ownership is concerned, we recommend visiting the Columbia Journalism Review's web guide to what the major media companies own:
www.cjr.org/owners
 
 
For more online resources about media studies, we recommend visiting the Media Education Foundation's website at www.mediaed.org.
 
 
For excellent reading resources on how to critically interpret media messages, we recommend the following books:
 
1. Media Literacy: Keys to Interpreting Media Messages,by Art Silverblatt, Professor of Media Communications. (Media Literacy was published in 1995 by Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881).
 
2. The Age of Manipulation, by Wilson Bryan Key, Ph.D. in Communication Studies. (The Age of Manipulation was published in 1989 by Madison books, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706).

 

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