I'm down with hubbs on Putin once again here. The whole Western Hemisphere wants Putin to leave, it would be dump to do such a thing. From what I know, he's pretty popular in the Russian Federation.
Don't trust the media, there is so much lying and manipulating in it, it's not even funny.
I'm reading a book about media in Germany at the moment. Interesting and terrifying.
I don't know about English books about it, but I found those:
"New Media Monopoly" by Ben Bagdikian and "Rich Media, Poor Democracy" by Robert McChesney