All the ebooks and scanned, print material that we host appear here. We consider the material published here to be covered by fair use provisions for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research and do not seek to profit from it. All of the books uploaded are assumed to be in the public-domain as they were found on public websites and sources, the vast majority taken mostly from, but not limited-to The Internet Archive. For books still-in-copyright, no commercial use should be made from any files without the express approval of the copyright holder.

Walter Spearman

Understanding The News (1941)

Understanding The News (1941) by Walter Spearman

FOREWORD

There are some who say : "You can't believe what you see in the papers." There are others who say: "It's so, because I saw it in print."

But the intelligent individual neither believes everything he reads nor automatically discounts what he does read. He tries to understand the news,...

Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953

Free Press : An Essay on the Manipulation of News and Opinion, and How to Counter It (1918)

Free Press : An Essay on the Manipulation of News and Opinion, and How to Counter It (1918) by Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953

A critique and analysis of the modern Media from a coherent, Catholic perspective. Belloc critiques the evil influence of a Media that manipulates, controls, and suppresses news and opinion; and he offers a relevant apologia...