Media Dictatorship: How Schools and Educators Can Defend Freedom of Speech

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Media Dictatorship: How Schools and Educators Can Defend Freedom of Speech outlines how the American media amasses enormous power and uses it to control every aspect of the peoples livesincluding schools, elections, science, and freedom of thought. Even religious institutions, supposedly answerable to God only, are now being influenced and controlled by media. This book discusses the devastating consequences of such control on democracy and our civilization, and then offers suggestions on what can be done to identify media propaganda and defend freedom of speech.
The school system has always been the first line of defense for patriotism and democracy. It is important for teachers to understand the consequences of a powerful media that does not tolerate diversity of thought. This book will encourage teachers to cultivate independence of thought among students. School administrators, too, have a responsibility to ensure that school campuses are sanctuaries of freedom of thought where leaders of tomorrow are taught to be tolerant of opposing views. In the larger public, outside the school campus, Media Dictatorship will spur a robust debate about the kind of media that can help nurture our democracy and civilization.

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Media Dictatorship: How Schools and Educators Can Defend Freedom of Speech examines the many ways in which a lack of objectivity in the media risks the distortion of our institutions and the society they are intended to support. Cedrick Ngalande weaves together a backstory that integrates prominent refereed and unrefereed sources and media reports in a way that illuminates how the current state of American media betrays our national interests, and lays out what is happening, how it is happening, and what it will mean if current practices and standards continue unchecked. -- James E. Moore, professor of industrial and systems engineering and director of the transportation engineering graduate program, Viterbi School of Engineering, Asanti Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California
Media Dictatorship is a must-read book for anybody who cares about media freedom and the medias use of information. Ngalande provides an excellent explanation of how information can be distorted and used by the media in America and around the world, and how certain people, politicians, and organizations can use it to gain a competitive edge. This book also describes steps that may need to be undertaken to minimize the negative effect of distorted and unchecked information on a countrys institutions. -- Torna Omar Soro, professor of economics and computer science, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, Massachusetts; computer science lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts

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Cedrick Ngalande is an aerospace engineer and space scientist residing in California. He was born in Malawi in Africa at a time when the country was still a dictatorship. His expertise in multiple disciplines, from science to business to engineering to finance, gives him a unique perspective of the way the media shapes, controls, and sometimes suppresses expert opinion in different fields on important issues.