Inventing Reality: Media and the New World Order
Michael Parenti
Tuesday, 05 Nov 1991 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Michael Parenti is the author of eight books including Trends and Tragedies of American Foreign Policy, Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media, The Sword and the Dollar: Imperialism, Revolution and the Arms Race and Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment. He has written for the Nation, the Progressive, political Affairs, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Politics and Society, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He received his doctorate in political science from Yale University and taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at Albany, the University of Vermont and Sarah Lawrence College.Part of the World Affairs Series: The New World Order
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