Alcohol in Prime Time: 10 Guidelines for Writers
The following set of guidelines for the entertainment community about the use of alcohol in TV entertainment shows has helped…
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“Absolut Magic” proclaims a print ad for a popular vodka. “Paradise found,” headlines another. “Fairy tales can come true” says…
Our Culture of Addiction
“No street-corner crack dealer ever had a better line than the one Madison Avenue delivers at every commercial break: Buy…
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…
From Savers to Spenders: How Children Became a Consumer Market
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…