Unreliable Sources

Committed eloquent writings that plumb teh psychological and political complexities of mass-mediated experience. --San Francisco Chronicle <P>An essential text. --Utne Reader <P>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 <P>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 <P>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.