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Media Literacy Essay
By Jason Barnett

In this essay I will discuss corporate ownership of the media, who owns these media outlets, and there tools of deceiving the public. There is a great group out there called "Project Censored" and this group "shows important news stories that aren't being covered properly" (project censored.org) "Every year for the past three decades, Sonoma State University's Department of Sociology has produced a powerful little book called "Project Censored", reporting on the "top 25" censored stories ignored or suppressed by our corporately-owned commercially-financed mainstream culture of "news". (Project Censored 2006). Why is this? It is because of what they call "Junk food news" (http://www.answers.com/topic/junk-food-news); news that has no relevance to anything but trying to sell us more cars or just fill our minds with filler. "The "Junk......

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Approximate Word Count: 2201
Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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