Bayley, Edwin, JOE McCARTHY AND THE PRESS, Pantheon Books, NYC, 1981, Fascinating account of the strange relationship between Joe McCarthy and the American Press. 270 pages
Gruley, Bryan, PAPERLOSSES: A MODERN EPIC OF GREED AND BETRAYAL AT AMERICA'S TWO LARGEST NEWSPAPER COMPANIES, Grove Pub., Compelling story of the 25-year struggle between the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, proud, family-owned papers that became pawns of the nation's largest newspaper chains-- Gannett and Knight-Ridder--in a battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court. 448 pages
Haas, Richard, THE POWER TO PERSUADE, Houghton Mufflin--How to become an effective and convincing communicator. 260 pages
Head and Sterling, BROADCASTING IN AMERICA: A SURVEY OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA, Houghton Mifflin, 1991--Places the media in a broad academic perspective. Covers all the basics of broadcasting, sets the U.S. broadcasting media in an international context, and discusses developments in programming regulation and technology. 437 pages
Kincaid, Cliff & Reed, Irvine, PROFILES OF DECEPTION: HOW THE NEWS MEDIA ARE DECEIVING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Book Distributors, New York, 1990--233 pages
Seiden, Martin, ACCESS TO THE AMERICAN MIND, Shapolsky Books, 1991--An indictment of the mass media and the impact it has upon both our governmental institutions and the American way of life. 234 pages
Singer, Harry The Foundation, WHAT ROLE DOES, AND WHAT ROLE SHOULD THE MEDIA PLAY IN CHOOSING OUR CANDIDATES FOR NATIONAL OFFICE?, Wellington, CA 1993--Excerpts from the essays submitted to the Foundation by more than a thousand high school students across the country. 183 pages
Walsh, Kenneth, FEEDING THE BEAST: THE WHITE HOUSE VERSUS THE PRESS,
Random House, NYC, 1996, Anecdotes and personal glimpses of the powerful. Explains
presidential strategies to get favorable press coverage and strategies the White House
press corps regularly uses in gathering good stories. 338 pages