Democracy`S Oxygen

How the Corporations Control the News

By: James Winter

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Paperback | 3 March 2026

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James Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
The news media mythology about dedication to the public interest is contrasted with substantial evidence that the news is largely a corporate/management product. The result is "Media Think": group-think on a vast scale which pervades the media and through which they promote narrow ideological dogmas about the world around us, such as: globalization, privatization, social cuts and deficit hysteria. This book presents the hard facts that illustrate the complicity between government and corporate media interests in Canada.

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Preface
Introduction
Mediasaurus	p. 1
The Black Market	p. 21
Paul Desmarais and Power	p. 45
The Public Interest	p. 71
News as a Management Product	p. 85
Media Think	p. 111
Project Censored Canada	p. 121
Patterns in Under-Reported Stories	p. 127
Conclusions	p. 139
Media Corporation Assets	p. 169
Media-Corporate Director Board Interlocks	p. 170
Dailies by Chain Ownership	p. 175
Alternative Media	p. 177
1995 Compensation for CEOs	p. 178
Newspaper Ownership by Province	p. 180
Selected Wealthy Canadians	p. 181
Index	p. 183
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