Altered States: How Television Changes Childhood
In your award-winning book No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, you deal with television’s…
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At first glance it looked like The Return of the Rainbow Coalition. First Whoopie Goldberg, then Edward James Olmos took…
How We Connect with the Earth
It takes only one summer for a child of the right age to bond with the natural world, to know…
Envrionment News: No More Business as Usual
The environment is “in” again this season. Thanks in part to all the hoopla of Earth Day 1990, the media…
Marketing the Military: Should Soldiering Be Sold Like Soap?
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…