The Political Economy of Media and Power

The Editor: Jeffery Klaehn holds a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam and is currently completing a second Ph.D. at the University of Strathclyde. He has published in a range of international peer-reviewed journals and has compiled, edited, and contributed to Filtering the News: Essays on Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model (2005), Bound by Power: Intended Consequences (2006), Inside the World of Comic Books (2007) and Roadblocks to Equality: Women Challenging Boundaries (2008). Dr. Klaehn is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Global Mass Communication, ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies and Fifth-Estate-Online: The International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism. Dr. Klaehn’s teaching and research focus upon pop culture, media, power, political economy, social inequality, education, and human rights.

Contents: Cees J. Hamelink: Preface – David Miller/William Dinan: Introduction – Jeffery Klaehn: Discourses on Power – Sylvia Hale: Promoting War: The Power Politics of Manufacturing News – Richard Lance Keeble: Hacks and spooks - Close Encounters of a Strange Kind: A Critical History of the Links between Mainstream Journalists and the Intelligence Services in the UK – Gerald Sussman: A Regime of Propaganda: The Systemic Bases of Promotional Political Culture – Stuart Allan/Donald Matheson: Images in Wartime: The Mediation of Power – Robin Andersen: The Power of Images at Times of War – Henry A. Giroux: Public Pedagogy, Cultural Politics, and the Biopolitics of Militarization – Andrew Mullen: Bringing Power Back In: The Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model, 1988-2008 – Robert Jensen: The Faculty Filter: Why the Propaganda Model is Marginalized in U.S. Journalism Schools – James Winter: Reporting on the Pharmaceutical Industry: Profit before People – Yasmin Jiwani: Soft Power: Policing the Border through Canadian TV Crime Drama – Richard Poulin/Melanie Claude: Appearance, Intimacy Exhibition, Hypersexualization and Pornography – David Berry: Radical Mass Media Criticism, History and Theory – Justin Lewis: The Myth of Commercialism: Why a Market Approach to Broadcasting Does Not Work.