Barrie Zwicker
Personal Information
Description
A Canadian alternative media journalist, documentary producer, and political activist. Founder of the SOURCES directory, now online at www.sources.com. Zwicker was an award-winning newspaper writer for the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and The Detroit News. His commentary "Facing the Fourth Estate" was aired weekly on 18 CBC stations. He taught journalism for seven years at Ryerson University and worked for 15 years at Vision TV, finishing with his own weekly program, "Media File."
Books
Sources 14
A directory for journalists, editors, writers, and researchers, featuring thousands of contacts, experts, spokespersons, and organizations. A detailed controlled-vocabulary subject index lists more than 12,000 topics, with relevant experts listed under each topic.
Towers of Deception
A dozen carefully researched books have exposed the official story of 9/11 to be a terror fraud. Yet the mainstream media have monolithically failed to ask elementary questions about anomalies in this story. So-called alternative media have been little better. Towers of Deception explains why and prescribes actions to break out the truth.Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included.
The news
The news is everywhere. We can't stop constantly checking it on our computes, but what is this doing to our minds? We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton, but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our lives. Here, de Botton takes twenty-five archetypal news stories--including an airplane crash, a murder, a celebrity interview and a political scandal--and submits them to unusually intense analysis with a view to helping us navigate our news-soaked age. He raises such questions as: Why are disaster stories often so uplifting? What makes the love lives of celebrities so interesting? Why do we enjoy watching politicians being brought down? Why are upheavals in far-off lands often so boring? De Botton has written the ultimate guide for our frenzied era, certain to bring calm, understanding and a measure of sanity to our daily (perhaps even hourly) interactions with the news machine.--From publisher description.