Tag: News

Free Download Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange (Audiobook)
English | April 01, 2021 | ASIN: B08X4YVJ7R | M4B@128 kbps | 17h 50m | 973 MB
Author: Anonymous | Translator: Malcolm C. Lyons | Narrator: Taheen Modak
This Penguin Classic is performed by Taheen Modak, best known for The Bay and Two Weeks to Live. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Malcom Lyons.
On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: ‘I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that I had gathered was of any avail. You who see me take heed: for Time is not to be trusted.’

Free Download News Frames And National Security: Covering Big Brother By Douglas M. McLeod, Dhavan V. Shah
2015 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 0521113598 | PDF | 3 MB
Did media coverage contribute to Americans’ tendency to favor national security over civil liberties following the 9/11 attacks? How did news framing of terrorist threats support the expanding surveillance state revealed by Edward Snowden? Douglas M. McLeod and Dhavan V. Shah explore the power of news coverage to render targeted groups suspicious and to spur support for government surveillance. They argue that the tendency of journalists to frame stories around individual targets of surveillance – personifying the domestic threat – shapes citizens’ judgments about tolerance and participation, leading them to limit the civil liberties of a range of groups under scrutiny and to support ‘Big Brother’.

Free Download Countering Mainstream Narratives: Fake News, Fake Law, Fake Freedom by Alfred de Zayas
English | November 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1949762661 | 260 pages | MOBI | 2.38 Mb
Faced with the startling and blaring unity of global Western mainstream messaging, the public has become ever more distrustful of the MSM narratives―and with good reason. Authoritative sources have begun pushing back and offering cogent challenges to these proclaimed truths―and in turn, the digital gatekeepers have been increasingly cracking down on what they regard as unwelcome alternative views―irrespective of the stature of the persons providing them.

Free Download Aje-Ori Agbese, "Nigerian News Coverage of Intimate Partner Violence, 2011-2022"
English | ISBN: 1666919969 | 2023 | 182 pages | EPUB, PDF | 380 KB + 1252 KB

Free Download John Stott, "Good News About Injustice: A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0830848673 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 4.0 mb
The good news about injustice is that God is against it.

Free Download Benjamin Rex LaPoe II, "Resistance Advocacy as News: Digital Black Press Covers the Tea Party"
English | ISBN: 1498566855 | 2018 | 158 pages | EPUB | 1185 KB
Resistance Advocacy as News: Digital Black Press Covers the Tea Party examines the Black and mainstream press’s digital interpretations of the Tea Party during President Barack Obama’s first term. The Tea Party narrative and the white ideologies disseminated by conservative groups was, and continues to be, an intricate story for journalists to tell. This book tracks coverage of the Tea Party from the modern group’s beginning in early February of 2009 until two weeks after the 2012 general presidential election in November. While many mainstream journalists either fail to recognize, or ignore all together, the racial component that the Tea Party poses to Black solidarity, this book shows that Black reporters working for the Black press absolutely recognize the racial component and provide more thorough discussions than their mainstream counterparts. Historically, the Black press has existed to fill holes of misrepresentation in the mainstream press; to that end, this book addresses questions surrounding the ongoing necessity of the Black press and whether our society is "postracial," combining a quantitative analysis of implicit racial frames with a qualitative analysis of resonant myth, and providing empirical evidence that Black people still struggle to have their voices heard in the mainstream press.

Free Download Stefan Mertens, "Representations of Islam in the News: A Cross-Cultural Analysis "
English | ISBN: 1498509878 | 2016 | 296 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The representation of Islam is unquestionably a critical test for comparing journalistic reporting across countries and cultures. The Islamic religion has weight in international reporting (defining what we termed "foreign Islam"), but it is also the religion of numerically important minority groups residing in Europe ("national Islam"). The first part of the book is "setting the scene." Three chapters provide insights in dominant patterns of the representation of Islam as detected by various authors and studies involved with Islam representation in Europe. Part two, the core section of the book, contributes to the development of the field of comparative journalism studies by comparing several countries and six media systems in Western Europe: the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium (Flanders), the French-speaking part of Belgium (Wallonia), the Netherlands, France, Germany, and the U.K. Part three of this book presents two reception studies, one qualitative and the other quantitative. Equally important, as the bulk of attention goes to Western Europe, is the extension towards the representation of Muslims and Islam outside Western Europe. Part four of the book is devoted to the representation of Islam in some of the so-called BRICs-countries: Russia, China, and India.

Free Download Tom Jackson, "Fake News (What’s the Issue?)"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0711250324 | EPUB | pages: 0 | 5.9 mb
What is fake news? How can the news be wrong? How do we know if what we’re reading is true or not?

Free Download James T. Hamilton, "All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0691116806, 0691123675 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 2.5 mb
That market forces drive the news is not news. Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors’ products. But in All the News That’s Fit to Sell, economist James Hamilton shows just how this happens. Furthermore, many complaints about journalism-media bias, soft news, and pundits as celebrities-arise from the impact of this economic logic on news judgments.

Free Download Ruth Moon, "Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict Rwanda "
English | ISBN: 0197623425 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Journalists working in authoritarian countries contend with competing institutional logics. This is particularly the case in post-conflict countries, where journalistic practice is simultaneously shaped by historical antagonisms, global development initiatives, and the authoritarian state. While journalism schools and professional organizations speak a Western logic of objectivity and independence, political history instills a logic of subordination, and organizational business models instill a logic of financially motivated censorship. As more countries move away from democratic models, more and more journalists will face these seemingly irreconcilable pressures.