Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press, edited by Kristina Borjesson is a collection of essays by mainstream journalists with integrity who have seen what happens when you try to report on a story that the corporate media and the social power players do not want reported.
This book is highly recommended by Buzzflash and is critical reading for anyone concerned with media reform.
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Censored 2005 : The Top 25 Censored Stories (Censored), edited by Peter Phillips. This book is a compilation of the most important stories of the year that were not covered or under covered by the corporate media. You can read the stories covered by Project Censored in this book here:
http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005Censored 2005: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004(articles for these topics are linked at the above URL)
#1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy
#2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Holds Corporations Accountable
#3: Bush Administration Censors Science
#4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians
#5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources
#6: The Sale of Electoral Politics
#7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial Appointments
#8: Cheney's Energy Task Force and The Energy Policy
#9: Widow Brings RICO Case Against U.S. government for 9/11
#10: New Nuke Plants: Taxpayers Support, Industry Profits
#11: The Media Can Legally Lie
#12: The Destabilization of Haiti
#13: Schwarzenegger Met with Enron's Ken Lay Years Before the California Recall
#14: New Bill Threatens Intellectual Freedom in Area Studies
#15: U.S. Develops Lethal New Viruses
#16: Law Enforcement Agencies Spy on Innocent Citizens
#17: U.S. Government Represses Labor Unions in Iraq in Quest for Business Privatization
#18: Media and Government Ignore Dwindling Oil Supplies
#19: Global Food Cartel Fast Becoming the World's Supermarket
#20: Extreme Weather Prompts New Warning from UN
#21: Forcing a World Market for GMOs
#22: Censoring Iraq
#23: Brazil Holds Back in FTAA Talks, But Provides Little Comfort for the Poor of South America
#24: Reinstating the Draft
#25: Wal-Mart Brings Inequality and Low Prices to the World