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
