Institute for Media Analysis
The Institute for Media Analysis is an organization, established in 1986, that believes modern media aims to indoctrinate of the public under the interests of corporate, industrial, military, and ruling powers. It aims to analyze this phenomenon.
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Over the years, IMA has published and produced books (including Jim Garrison's On the Trail of the Assassins, which became Oliver Stone's film, JFK), monographs, and a monthly magazine (Lies Of Our Times); sponsored national and international conferences, including a major conference on Anti-communism in American Life at Harvard University; provided speakers for university and other events and debates; made presentations to the United Nations and international conferences; and acted as fiscal sponsor for non-profit projects with similar purposes, including the Pacifica Campaign, Democracy Now!, the Center for Non-Profit Technology, and others.
Pursuant to an agreement with CovertAction magazine, of which Ray and Schaap were among the original founders, IMA has the exclusive electronic rights to all issues published from the magazine's inception in 1978 through its millennial issue of 2000. In the future, all of this critical material, focusing on the machinations of U.S. intelligence operations, will be available on this web site's archives, as well all of the issues of Lies Of Our Times (1990-1994), devoted to critical analysis of the New York Times and other corporate media.
With the sea changes in international policy that came with the inauguration of George W. Bush, with the institutionalization of "preemptive retaliation" and "regime change," culminating in impending war in Iraq and the potential devastation of the entire Middle East, we initiated, with the cooperation of Ocean Press, a progressive book publisher based in Melbourne, Australia, the release of several collections of historically relevant articles from CovertAction, cogent and prescient analyses from the Reagan-Bush I years, along with new introductions to bring those materials into current focus. We have thus already produced Bioterror: Manufacturing Wars the American Way and Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism.[1]