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  • Minnesota Rag

    by Fred W. Friendly ...
    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 ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control . . .

    by Fred W. Friendly ...
    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 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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

    Free Speech Vs. Fairness in Broadcasting

    by Fred W. Friendly ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
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  • North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes

    by Michael G Johnson ...
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  • The Vanity Fair Diaries

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    by Tina Brown ...
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  • The Carter Journals

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    by Shane Phipps ...
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    What Gets Suppressed on Chinas Version of Twitter (And Why)

    by Jason Q. Ng ...
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  • An Atheist in the FOXhole

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

    by Joe Muto ...
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  • Spying on Democracy

    Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

    by Heidi Boghosian ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Acting for Freedom

    Fifty Years of Civil Liberties in Canada

    by Marian Botsford Fraser, Joseph Boyden ...
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