In the year 2023, after numerous worldwide calamities, New York psychiatrist, criminal profiler, and historian Dr. Gideon Wolfe acquires evidence that the well-known visual record of President Emily Forrester's assassination in 2018 was altered by her husband, and that the public at large is being deceived by the media every day.
a reference guide to censorship in the press, motion pictures, broadcasting, and the Internet
Foerstel, Herbert N
1998
Examines the origins and development of newspapers, magazines, motion pictures, radio, television, and the Internet, and presents information about landmark incidents and cases of censorship in each media.
Offers an overview of violence in the media, a chronology of major events in the development of the controversy over whether the government should limit such violence, biographical sketches of people central to the debate, and essays considering both sides of the issue.
Describes how violence in the media has changed over the years, the false ideas and messages it promotes, theories about its effects, and how one may resist its message.
An illustrated history of communications and media, discussing body language and gestures, writing, postal systems, the press, radio and television, propaganda, the computer revolution, and many other topics.
Chronicles social media over two millennia, from papyrus letters that Cicero used to exchange news across the Empire to today, reminding us how modern behavior echoes that of prior centuries and encouraging debate and discussion about how we will communicate in the future.