War, Lies & Videotape: How Media Monopoly Stifles Truth

Newly emerging global media systems, censorship, and media ownership are examined in this collection of essays. The growing concentration of media ownership, the links between the government, the media, and the military, and the media's role in disseminating war propaganda are discussed and illustrate the need for new, alternative channels of communications to help activists break through the media monopoly. Contributors include Scott Armstrong, Ramsey Clark, and Nawal El Saadawi.

Lenora Foerstel is a cultural historian and the author of Creating Surplus Populations: The Effects of Military and Corporate Policies on Indigenous People.