Following are the course notes for the students of my Mass Media: A History course at Renegade University.
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LESSON 1: The Media Conspiracy
REFERENCES
“Mass media” – Science Daily definition
“Mass media” – The Chicago School of Media Theory definition
The Hutchins Commission on the press and mass communication
Mass media definition from Manufacturing Consent
Michael Parenti: “The media may not always be able to tell us what to think…”
Thomas Jefferson: “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.”
Thomas Jefferson: “newspapers without a government”
YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam’s father baffled by her violence
International Printing Museum Tour: The Gutenberg Press
Read Strasbourg Relations online
June 1643: An Ordinance for the Regulating of Printing
London Gazette report on Waterloo
Nathan Rothschild and the Battle of Waterloo (Rothschild archive)
Morton covers Rothschild and Waterloo
Lippmann demonstrates “telegraph news speech”
As It Happened: AP Wire Copy of the JFK Assassination
You Furnish the Legend, I’ll Furnish the Quote (Hearst quotation)
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
Harmsworth “Lord Northcliffe” / Daily Mail background
None Dare Call It Conspiracy (CFR media conspiracy)
Congressional Record January 27-February 12, 1917: Vol 54 p. 2947-2948
The False WWI Armistice Report That Fooled America
RECOMMENDED READING
Areopagitica by John Milton [Text / Audio]
Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann [Text / Audio]
Liberty and the News by Walter Lippmann
A Free and Responsible Press by the Hutchins Commission
An Aristocracy of Critics by Stephen Bates
The Gray Lady Winked by Ashley Rindsberg
The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase
From Gutenberg to Google by Tom Wheeler
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