Source: James Corbett of The Corbett Report presents Mass Media: A History, an online course examining the history of media, exploring media's impact on society, and revealing where technological developments in media technology are taking us in the future. If you like The Corbett Report documentaries, you'll love this detailed deep dive into one of the most important topics facing humanity in the 21st century.
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
LESSON 2: TV As A Weapon
REFERENCES
The Track of Brain Activity during the Observation of TV Commercials with the High-Resolution EEG Technology
Watching television: a previously unrecognized powerful trigger of λ waves
Televisions, computer screens and other such visual stimuli induce gamma waves in our brain, study shows
Turn on the TV and Bingo: You're Brain Dead
The Responsive Chord: How Radio and TV Manipulate You, Who You Vote For, What You Buy.
