Making a Case for Media Literacy in the Classroom
The necessity for and methods of media literacy education are often absent or unclear for many teachers and parents. Teachers…
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"I saw plenty of media violence when I was a child and it didn’t hurt me." "Everyone knows it’s just…
Babylon Revisited: How Violent Myths Resurface Today
Violence is the ethos of our times. It is the spirituality of the modern world. What is generally overlooked is…
Violence Formula: Analyzing TV, Video and Movies
Violence is the foundation of many films, TV movies, and action series. In fact, violence is often synonymous with "action."…
All Power to the Conglomerate
On October 4, 1957, a rocket took off from an isolated plain near an obscure village in Siberia. Called Sputnik,…
STARTING POINT: Wrestling with Television — 15 Years of Cutting Edge TV Criticism
There’s a provocative new book currently making the rounds by a man who, aided by a host of friends with…
Comics and Culture: The Cartoonist as TV Critic
A mother comes into the family room where her son is watching a noisy action/adventure show with his school books…
Starting Point: In the Light of the Fires
Throughout this issue we address the media’s mandate to provide meaningful political discourse, an abstract phrase that we struggle to…
Making Politics Work
Roger Ailes, media advisor to presidents Reagan and Bush, once told a reporter: “You get up every morning and try…
Brave New World: Rediscovering Democratic Media
Frances Moore Lappé, longtime social philosopher and author of the pioneering study of food resources, Diet for a Small Planet,…