PASTORING: Stereotypes Back? It’s No Joke
"Have you heard the one about...?" Successful jokes depend on the irony and inconsistency that underlie humor. Recently, far too...
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Hollywood’s Arab: Still Stuck in the Desert
For years moviegoers have been offered stereotypical images of the Arab. The stereotype provides myths and misperceptions which then to...
اقرأ المزيدCentury of Abuse: Ethnic Images on the Big Screen
When one considers the history of the depiction of ethnic and racial groups within motion pictures, one sees almost a...
اقرأ المزيدProducer’s Lament: Bottom Line Still Tops
In a perfect TV world, the tube would reflect the great diversity and variety of our society. Obviously, it does...
اقرأ المزيدCovering Conflict: How the News Media Handles Ethnic Controversy
In the fall of 1968, I was a wire service reporter in New York City covering the lengthy public school...
اقرأ المزيدStarting Point: We all come from somewhere
A keen memory from my childhood was visiting Aunt Margaret's house where we children could swing on the front gate...
اقرأ المزيدMaking Connections: Media’s Role in our Culture of Violence
When Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D., dean of Harvard University's School of Public Health, begins one of her eloquent speeches on the...
اقرأ المزيدTeachers as Media Creators
When students walked into my class on the first day of school this year, I gave them three books each...
اقرأ المزيدWorking with Basics: Miracles DO Happen!
A few weeks ago I wrote to this list asking for ideas and suggestions about a 3-week "media" unit that...
اقرأ المزيدStudent-Produced Morning News
Frankly, it's both fun and rewarding to watch them work, these students who run the daily morning announcement TV program...
اقرأ المزيدLiteracy for the 21st Century: The Hope and the Promise
Since the beginning of recorded history, the concept of "literacy" meant having the skill to interpret "squiggles" on a piece...
اقرأ المزيدChina’s Challenge: Modernize, not Westernize
From the back of the crowded classroom, a young man raised his hand. "Tell us about Hol-lee-wood." he asked in...
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