Bridging the Gap: Sharing Your Family’s Life Stories
Picture your most recent family get together. Dinner, TV, maybe an argument over what to watch? How about an evening…
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There was a time – in fact, only 30 or 40 years ago – when children were not spoken of…
Teach Kids to Make TV!
In a documentary I produced some years ago called Part Time Work, 17-year-old Danny recognizes that he’s wasted his high…
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…
MINORITIES: Ecological Reporters Awaken to Ethnicity
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…