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Cuts in the top rates of the federal income tax structure, corporate tax rate reduction and liberalization of depreciation benefits have favored the rich. At the same time Social Security taxes have increased. 2. Reagan spending policy favored the rich. Doubling of military expenditures and tripling interest payments on government debt benefited upper income people. At the same time low-income housing expenditures were reduced in the interests of "economy." 3. Government regulations were relaxed during the Reagan years. Stock market manipulators, and officers of S&Ls benefited as a result. 4. Monetary policy favored the rich at the expense of the poor. High interest rates caused by the $3 trillion national debt favors the owners of government bonds, but hurt those who borrow money to buy homes or cars. Unfortunately, the poor remain apathetic at the polls. "The actual lever-pulling electorate was disproportionately Buick-owning and Book-of-the-Month Club. Seventy-five percent of the citizenry voted in Pacific Palisades, 25 percent in the South Bronx." [From "On My Desk" in 28 February Mennonite Weekly Review.] ================================================================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Frank: Following this basic mold would be the "books" category. I've already send RJ Hinde a "mold" for the "groups" category and talked to Jym about the "Audio/Visual" category... I don't know how far you are scanning in the SEP catalog; but had typed in some SEP books from an ad. last fall, so I'll email that to you and you can use that for a while... (again, see also gen.references) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive Subject: NEW BOOK: _Unreliable Sources_ (Media Bias, self-censor. etc) Summary: "A Guide to Detecting Bias in the News Media" Followup-to: alt.activism,alt.censorship - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ================================================================= H o w a n d W h y t h e A m e r i c a n N e w s M e d i a A r e D i s t o r t i n g C u r r e n t E v e n t s - - ================================================================= Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media by Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon "Unreliable Sources gives a rundown of some of the most important news stories you didn't hear about over the past decade...stories that were effetively made unavail- able to the average citizen.. 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Lee is the publisher of Extra!, the joumal of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and author of Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion. Norman Solomon, a FAIR advisory board member, is co-author of Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation. Hardcover, 320 pages. Illustrated with news photos, headlines and captions. Only $19.95. Carol Publishing Group/A Lyle Stuart Book To order by Visa or MasterCard, call 1-800-447-BOOK Or write, Carol publishing Group, Dept. IN, 120 Enerprise Avenue, Secaucus, NJ 07094 ################################################################## ################################################################## See also some relevant archived ACTIV-L files, notably CENSORED PROJ1989 Project Censored top 10 stories of 1989 CENSORED PROJ1990 Project Censored top 10 stories of 1990 by using the GET command (on the file name CENSORED PROJ1989 and on the file CENSORED PROJ1990). ====================================== To get a file named FILE NAME from the archiver (files are two words separa- ted by a space), send the 1-line message GET FILE NAME ACTIV-L to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET ====================================== Use the GET command with ACTIV-L ARCHIVE for a file listing the files available with the archiver. See especially the "Media/propaganda" section, which includes several of FAIR's reports, e.g. on NightLine and McNeil/Lehrer, or on the Panama invasion ("The Media Goes to War: How Television Sold the Panama Invasion") FAIR can be reached at FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) 130 W. 25th Street New York, NY 10001 (212)633-6700 or electronically: "fair" on PeaceNet ##################################################################