Taking a critical perspective on the economics and politics of "presenting" the news, this topical supplement argues that the media systematically distorts news coverage.

Includes index.

From Cronkite's Complaint to Orwell's Oversight -- "Freedom of the Press Belongs to the Man Who Owns One" -- Who Controls the News? : the Myths of Independence and Objectivity -- The Big Sell -- Giving Labor the Business -- Creating moods left and right -- The Media Fight the Red Menace -- The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming -- Soviet terrorists, Bulgarian pope killers, and other big lies -- Doing the Third World -- Variations on a theme of counterrevolution -- Methods of Misrepresentation -- Culture, Control, and Resistance.