Links: Propaganda, Media, Manufacturing Consent, Social Control

• Chris Hedges, The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free, TruthDig, TruthDig.com, 29 June 2009.
  
  Books mentioned in Hedges' TruthDig essay include:
  • Stuart Ewen. Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture. Basic Books, 1976, 2001.
    (Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.)
  
  
  • Stuart Ewen. PR! A Social History of Spin. Basic Books, 1996.
    (Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.)
  
  
  • Gustave Le Bon. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1896.
    (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library; Google Books.)
  
  
  • Walter Lippmann. Public Opinion. New York: Macmillan, 1922; Free Press Paperbacks, 1997.
    (Google Books; Amazon.com.)
  
  Hedges' essay also discusses the works of: Jacob Riis; Lewis Hine; Walker Evans; Upton Sinclair; James Agee.
  
  Hedges' most recent book is:
  Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Nation Books, July 2009.
  (Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.)


• Mike Allen and Michael Calderone, Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar, Politico.com, 02 July 2009.
  
  David Carr, A Publisher Stumbles Publicly at the Post, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 03 July 2009.
  
  Andrew Alexander, A Sponsorship Scandal at The Post, The Washington Post, 12 July 2009.
  
  Alexander's essay clearly indicates that the Post's senior management doesn't understand their business. This appears to be a common feature of many of the U.S.'s large corporations: a focus on finance and ignorance of the organization's operations.
  
  Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, 'The Select Few' Are Cashing in: Shocking Corruption at the Washington Post, AlterNet, 12 July 2009.


• Laura Miller, History is bunk after all, Salon.com, 09 July 2009.
  
  review of:
  Margaret MacMillan, The Uses and Abuses of History (Canadian and UK title; American edition title: Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History).


• Glenn Greenwald, Chuck Todd's arguments against investigations, Salon.com, 15 July 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, GE's silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC's sleazy use of Richard Wolffe, Salon.com, 01 August 2009.
  
  Glenn Greenwald, The scope -- and dangers -- of GE's control of NBC and MSNBC, Salon.com, 03 August 2009.


• Dean Starkman, Don’t Dismiss Taibbi: What the mainstream press can learn from a Goldman takedown, The Audit, Columbia Journalism Review, 06 August 2009.


• * Robert Parry, Palin's 'Death Panel' and GOP Lying, The Smirking Chimp, 12 August 2009.