Mass Media: A History — Course Notes

11/02/2021

Following are the course notes for the students of my Mass Media: A History course at Renegade University.

If you aren’t part of the class, you can sign up at any time. All of the lessons are recorded and are available for viewing at any time.

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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

Who said: “If You Don’t Read the Newspaper You Are Uninformed, If You Do Read the Newspaper You Are Misinformed”?

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”

LA Times bombing of 1910

YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam’s father baffled by her violence

The Aachen Pilgrimage

International Printing Museum Tour: The Gutenberg Press

Read Strasbourg Relations online

London Gazette – History

June 1643: An Ordinance for the Regulating of Printing

Areopagitica by John Milton

London Gazette report on Waterloo

Nathan Rothschild and the Battle of Waterloo (Rothschild archive)

The Rothschild Libel: Why has it taken 200 years for an anti-Semitic slur that emerged from the Battle of Waterloo to be dismissed? (Telegraph)

Rothschild and Waterloo (QFC)

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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