The news that doesn't make the news sources for alternative current affairs reporting
The distorting influence of all mass media has been demonstrated for many years in the work of such as Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and the Glasgow University Media Group. Their books have been published by such as Routledge, Verso and Pluto, yet their ideas hardly have the currency that one would expe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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ISC Collective
1995-09-01
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| Series: | Information for Social Change |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4609383 |
| Summary: | The distorting influence of all mass media has been demonstrated for many years in the work of such as Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and the Glasgow University Media Group. Their books have been published by such as Routledge, Verso and Pluto, yet their ideas hardly have the currency that one would expect of work rigorously sustained for so many years. The Guardian is the only newspaper to cover the work of the Glasgow University Media Group on anything like a regular basis (here regular means once a year at best). Pilger has an occasional column in New Statesman and Society plus the very occasional feature in The Guardian. Chomsky is the author of dozens of books, some published by mainstream publishers, many by the alternatives. But the bulk of his articles appear in the alternative press. The amount of time given on television to dissident and critical views of the media on radio is negligible; on television it is virtually non-existent. A number of magazines and journals are dedicated to the task of analysing and decoding the messages of the mass media. All present their ideas in a readable, accessible style, often humorously, nevertheless maintaining a critical rigour (a combination that is common in alternative literature). |
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| ISSN: | 1364-694X 1756-901X |