How do Media Images of Men Affect Our Lives?
Turn on your television set and there is about a 90 percent chance that the first person you view will…
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Since this article first appeared in Media&Values #39 “Militarism: The Media Connection,” (Spring, 1987) the volunteer army–recruited through advertising and…
Living Room Wars: Vietnam vs. ‘Desert Storm’
"The collapse of America’s "will" to fight in Vietnam resulted from a political process of which the media were only…
Brands R Us: How Advertising Works
Hyundai tells us that their cars make sense, Apple Computer offers us the power to be our best, and most…
Where Does it Come From? Where Does it Go?
When I was growing up in a small Midwestern town, my mother almost always knew which farms the meat, the…
News: Beyond the Myth of Objectivity
Objectivity, n. (Apparently,) The practice of presenting both sides of an issue. Spend a week watching any of the network…
News: Balance Bias with Critical Questions
When I read the daily newspaper or watch the evening news, what is missing often upsets me as much as…
How to Evaluate Media Images of Women
At the beginning of my career in the 1970s I spent time actively looking in television and film for characters…
Eve’s Legacy: Burden of Blame
The issues for women in a media world have a long history. Long before there was advertising to objectify women’s…
Real Issues in a Reel World
When I started working in documentary film in 1952, I thrilled to rhetoric about the Role of Film–to educate, to…