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  • Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control . . .

    This discourse on the importance of television in society presents Friendly's uncannily prescient views on the corrosive effect of money on the news business, the sensationalization of news reporting, and the viewing public's appetite for quality broadcasting.With Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly practically invented television journalism. Through telling anecdotes and penetrating analysis, he ... Leer más

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  • Minnesota Rag

    Minnesota Rag takes the reader on a tour of the underside of a dark period in Minnesota's past, one filled with crooked public officials, vengeful gangsters, and yellow journalists. Featuring notorious characters such as Jay M. Near, racist and antilabor publisher of Minneapolis's Saturday Press, pioneering newsman Fred W. Friendly weaves the tale of a court case that molded our understanding of ... Leer más

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  • The Good Guys, the Bad Guys and the First Amendment

    Free Speech Vs. Fairness in Broadcasting

    Unlike newspapers, TV and radio broadcasting is subject to government regulation in the form of the FCC and the Fairness Doctrine, which requires stations "to devote a reasonable amount of broadcast time to the discussion of controversial issues" and "to do so farily, in order to afford reasonable opportunity for opposing viewpoints." In this provocative book, Fred W. Friendly, former president of ... Leer más

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  • Murder in Minnesota

    A Collection of True Cases

    "My investigation of Minnesota murders over the years revealed no new motives for killing anyone. The old ones are perfectly satisfactory. . . . I hope you will find these murders interesting. I regret that I could not report the most ingenious and remarkable ones. They looked like accidents or natural deaths and were never discovered."—Walter N. TrenerryMurder in Minnesota features some of the ... Leer más

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  • The Souls of Black Folk: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition ( W.E.B. Du Bois Classics)

    The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race, some of which had been published earlier in The Atlantic Monthly. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in ... Leer más

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  • The Vanity Fair Diaries

    Power, Wealth, Celebrity, and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a Decade

    de Tina Brown ...
    Named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, and Vogue"A zingy account of the glittery, shallow 1980s . . . Brown is a waspish, reliably slick writer—her witty skewerings are first-class.” —The Times (London)Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an ... ... Leer más

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  • North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes

    Series series Men-at-Arms
    A detailed look at the warriors of the Native Americans who lived around the Great Lakes.This book details the growth of the European Fur trade in North America and how it drew the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes region, notably the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee tribes into the colonial European Wars.During the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the ... Leer más

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  • The Carter Journals

    Time Travels in Early U.S. History

    de Shane Phipps ...
    When fourteen-year-old Cody Carter’s grandfather gives him a box of dusty leather journals written by their Carter ancestors, even the history-loving Cody could not have predicted the adventure he was about to take. Journal by journal, Cody is physically transported back in time to experience the lives of Carters on the frontier in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Indiana as the family moved ever ... Leer más

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  • An Atheist in the FOXhole

    A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media

    de Joe Muto ...
    “Hilariously details the inner workings of the cable news network.” —The Daily BeastAfter college, Joe Muto—a self-professed bleeding-heart, godless liberal—took an entry-level position at Fox News. Joe kept quiet about his political views and initially enjoyed the newsroom camaraderie. But after he began working for Bill O’Reilly—Fox’s number one talking head—Joe just couldn’t take it anymore. He ... Leer más

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  • Blocked on Weibo

    What Gets Suppressed on Chinas Version of Twitter (And Why)

    de Jason Q. Ng ...
    Though often described with foreboding buzzwords such as "The Great Firewall" and the "censorship regime," Internet regulation in China is rarely either obvious or straightforward. This was the inspiration for China specialist Jason Q. Ng to write an innovative computer script that would make it possible to deduce just which terms are suppressed on China's most important social media site, Sina ... Leer más

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  • Spying on Democracy

    Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly clear, the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on every phone call Americans have ... Leer más

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  • Acting for Freedom

    Fifty Years of Civil Liberties in Canada

    The Canadian Civil Liberties Association celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with this overview of its activities--sometimes quiet and sometimes strident--as a watchdog and safeguard for Canadians and their rights as citizens. Through a series of discussions and interviews, a picture of Canada over the last half-century evolves. From the Charter of Freedoms to life and death matters such as ... Leer más

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