Video Visits Help Families Say ‘I Love You’
Like many nursing home patients, 90 year-old Trudy Smith resented being placed in The Center for the Aging in Washington…
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On sex in soap operas compared to real life: “They don’t ever seem to think ahead. They just decide that…
Studies Analyze Elderly Use of Television
Research conducted over the last 20 years offers a number of theories about the relationship between older people and TV.…
Sex and Consequences: Reflections of a TV Writer
Editor’s note: The sexual awakening of James at 15 was tough on Dan Wakefield, creator of the innovative and critically…
CHILDREN: Just Say ‘No’ to Garfield
Stores have always put up Valentine’s Day promotions as soon as the Christmas promotions come down. But now, it’s the…
Get Down to Business News
Three things sell newspapers and boost ratings: sex, suffering and silver (money). This at least is the typical formula many…
Can TV Characters Pay Their Bills?
Bombarded by media images of glamorous jobs with big rewards and little or no effort, young people may conclude work…
When I Grow Up: Children and the Work-World of Television
Television’s portrayal of the work world may have changed over the years, but the message absorbed by many children and…
The Empire Strikes: Mergers in the Media World
If all major media in the United States – every daily newspaper, magazine, broadcasting station, book publishing house and motion…
The Culture of Capitalism
The late mythologist and philosopher Joseph Campbell once noted that in medieval times the approach to a city was dominated…