I would very much recommend reading Parenti's Inventing Reality. It's dated but chock full of example after example of how our news gives the appearance of being uncritical while advancing the machinations of the ownership class. If you've paid any sort of attention to coverage of Bolivia or Venezuela the past few years you'll be blown away by how they keep getting away with the same techniques over and over again.
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media - this is an unofficial reprint someone is selling on amazon. I bought a copy and it's pretty decent. Just a few OCR related typos. The official used copies go for over a hundred sometimes so this is definitely worth it.
Or, if the seven seas is more your cup of tea
Also, the Blowback Podcast is pretty awesome.