Mediaspeak: How Television Makes Up Your Mind1 review Donna W. Cross Signet, 1984 If you've EVER watched TV, you need to read this book!!! I was required to read this book in 9th grade and it was the best thing that's ever been forced on me. I've read it a dozen times since. "Mediaspeak," in a nutshell, is about how television, and the news in particular, is full of crap. This book explains, in no uncertain terms, how television ...             Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television65 reviews Jerry Mander Harper Perennial, 1978 Reality TV may be the biggest sham every produced for our viewing pleasure + WOW WOW WOW + Intellectual View Of The Idiot Box + THROW OUT THE IDIOT BOX !!!             The Age of Missing Information17 reviews Bill Mckibben Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006 Disturbing + how television has shaped the modern psyche + A plea for mental silence + Still missing             How to Watch TV News: Revised Edition3 reviews Neil Postman, Steve Powers Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008 For News Junkies and Students Looking to Break Into TV Journalism + The real deal + Terrific read! Truly eye-opening and fascinating. I read the first edition quite a few years back and eagerly read the newly revised edition that addresses the web and how it further affects the devolving quality of America's television news programming. It's astounding how little we truly know about something ...             1984 (Signet Classics)1380 reviews George Orwell New American Library, 1961 A Warning, A Prediction...A Terrifying Truth + Ninteen-Eighty-Four: Still a Classic + Perfectly Horrific + Still Relevant + Timeless classic on the dangers of communism/big government             Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than ...73 reviews Jean M. Twenge Free Press, 2007 I am very grateful for the book + Everyone needs to read this book! I was born in 1959 and my son in 1984. The book helped me to see myself as a member of my generation. I was born and spend first 30 years of my life in Russia and would never expect to fit description of American baby boomers. Never-the-less a lot of things are pretty true for me. The book ...             Boxed In: The Culture of TV3 reviews Mark Crispin Miller Northwestern University Press, 1988 brilliant, breathtaking analysis of tv shows and ads + This book changed my life + Brilliant and biting collections of essays on pop culture The first 8 or so essays in this book constitute some of the greatest writing on TV and advertising that I have ever run into. Analysis of texts is often so freaking esoteric and bookish that there's no point in reading it unless you want to impress an english undergrad at a department meeting. ...             Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business127 reviews Neil Postman Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005 Judge a book by its cover + It's The Today Show-- Starring George Orwell and Aldous Huxley + A Good Deal!! + Disinformation Means Misleading Information--Misplaced, Irrelevant, Fragmented or Superficial + The media is the message again             Frontline: The Persuaders5 reviews PBS (Direct), 2005 the persuaders + Informative and Interesting + Advertising... + Very comprehensive and informative + Bravo PBS for a non company perspective             The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century7 reviews Robert McChesney Monthly Review Press, 2004 Extraordinary + Everyone should read this + Media? Propaganda Machine. + Great book, but some confusing philosophical notions             Mediaspeak: How Television Makes Up Your Mind1 review Donna W. Cross Signet, 1984 If you've EVER watched TV, you need to read this book!!! I was required to read this book in 9th grade and it was the best thing that's ever been forced on me. I've read it a dozen times since. "Mediaspeak," in a nutshell, is about how television, and the news in particular, is full of crap. This book explains, in no uncertain terms, how television ...             1984 (Signet Classics)1380 reviews George Orwell New American Library, 1961 A Warning, A Prediction...A Terrifying Truth + Ninteen-Eighty-Four: Still a Classic + Perfectly Horrific + Still Relevant + Timeless classic on the dangers of communism/big government             The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century7 reviews Robert McChesney Monthly Review Press, 2004 Extraordinary + Everyone should read this + Media? Propaganda Machine. + Great book, but some confusing philosophical notions             Boxed In: The Culture of TV3 reviews Mark Crispin Miller Northwestern University Press, 1988 brilliant, breathtaking analysis of tv shows and ads + This book changed my life + Brilliant and biting collections of essays on pop culture The first 8 or so essays in this book constitute some of the greatest writing on TV and advertising that I have ever run into. Analysis of texts is often so freaking esoteric and bookish that there's no point in reading it unless you want to impress an english undergrad at a department meeting. ...             How to Watch TV News: Revised Edition3 reviews Neil Postman, Steve Powers Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008 For News Junkies and Students Looking to Break Into TV Journalism + The real deal + Terrific read! Truly eye-opening and fascinating. I read the first edition quite a few years back and eagerly read the newly revised edition that addresses the web and how it further affects the devolving quality of America's television news programming. It's astounding how little we truly know about something ...             Frontline: The Persuaders5 reviews PBS (Direct), 2005 the persuaders + Informative and Interesting + Advertising... + Very comprehensive and informative + Bravo PBS for a non company perspective             Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business127 reviews Neil Postman Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005 Judge a book by its cover + It's The Today Show-- Starring George Orwell and Aldous Huxley + A Good Deal!! + Disinformation Means Misleading Information--Misplaced, Irrelevant, Fragmented or Superficial + The media is the message again             The Age of Missing Information17 reviews Bill Mckibben Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006 Disturbing + how television has shaped the modern psyche + A plea for mental silence + Still missing             Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than ...73 reviews Jean M. Twenge Free Press, 2007 I am very grateful for the book + Everyone needs to read this book! I was born in 1959 and my son in 1984. The book helped me to see myself as a member of my generation. I was born and spend first 30 years of my life in Russia and would never expect to fit description of American baby boomers. Never-the-less a lot of things are pretty true for me. The book ...             Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television65 reviews Jerry Mander Harper Perennial, 1978 Reality TV may be the biggest sham every produced for our viewing pleasure + WOW WOW WOW + Intellectual View Of The Idiot Box + THROW OUT THE IDIOT BOX !!!