This book ignites a national dialogue on issues vital to us all and it is the starting point for discussions by journalists and members of the public about the nature of journalism and the access to information.
Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans not through personal relationships but through the images the media show them. The Black Image in the White Mind offers a comprehensive look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of Whites toward Blacks.
The Seattle Times began a five-part investigative series entitled, “Uninformed Consent: What patients at ‘The Hutch’ weren’t told about the experiments in which they died.” In it, Times reporters David Heath and Duff Wilson described how patients had died prematurely in two clinical trials at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, experiments in which some of their doctors and the center itself had a financial interest.
The vice chairman and senior adviser of AOL Time Warner, R.E. (Ted) Turner pioneered the world’s first live, in-depth, around-the-clock, all-news television network with the launch of CNN in 1980.
This book asks us to reexamine whether our government really responds to the broad public or to the narrower interests and values of certain groups.
“To Protect and Collect” examined a controversial police practice of keeping money seized during drug raids.
Founding chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists.
Robert McChesney maintains that the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are no more than a handful of enormous corporations, and that this concentrated corporate control is disastrous for any notion of participatory democracy.
A TIME investigation uncovers how hundreds of companies get on the dole and why it costs every working American the equivalent of two weeks’ pay every year.
60 Minutes co-editor and CBS News correspondent.