Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media

Martin A. Lee is the author of four books, including most recently "Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana" "Medical, Recreational and Scientific". He is the cofounder of the media watch group FAIR and the director of Project CBD, a medical science information service. He is also the author of "Acid Dreams" and "The Beast Reawakens", and his writing has appeared in many publications, including "The Washington Post", "The Los Angeles Times", "Harper s Magazine", "Le Monde Diplomatique", "Rolling Stone", "The Nation", Salon.com, HuffingtonPost.com, and TheDailyBeast.com.

Darrien Lee, a graduate of Tennessee State University, is a two-time "Essence" bestselling author with four published works with Strebor Books. She has been featured in several periodicals, including "Romantic Times" magazine and the N"ashville Tennessean." She lives in LaVergne, Tennessee, with her husband and two daughters. Visit www.darrienlee.com

Norman Solomon is a freelance writer and journalist, and a regular contributor to the Jewish Chronicle. He is a Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. His previous publications include Judaism and World Religion and he contributed to The Oxford Companion
to the Jewish Religion.
Actor EDWARD ASNER is known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", and later continued in a spinoff series, "Lou Grant".

Associated with the media-watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), Lee ( Acid Dreams ) and Solomon ( Killing Our Own ) here document their assertion that the media have come to assume the role of spokespeople for the American business establishment, which allegedly runs the U.S. in general and Washington powerbrokers in particular--and whose press releases and other self-promoting testimonials often wend their way, verbatim, into newsprint. Citing the reluctance of newspapers and TV networks to present dissenting views on military spending, environmental pollution, economic policies that frustrate blacks and Hispanics, and American gunboat diplomacy in Latin America, they make a compelling case for the contention that newsmen and women distort current events. And though in the Reagan-Bush era, theirs is certainly a minority viewpoint, the authors remain convinced a change can be wrought.
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