Filling Gaps in the News
In today’s media-rich culture, the question, “what is news?” is as enigmatic as Pilate’s query to Jesus, “what is truth?”…
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Movies these days reflect almost every aspect of life and death but seldom do they deal with an experience common…
TV Food Messages and Children’s Diets
In the past few years a battle has raged in media circles about advertising directed to children, especially advertising for…
Technology is Only a Tool
With my ‘electronic lapel pin” blinking away on my jacket, I picked up the file of materials I had been…
Personal Computers: Big Miracles in Small Packages
Once upon a time the computer was a big machine with millions of vacuum tubes that lived in an air…
Cartoons’N Comics: Communication to the Quick
The comics. They may be worth a glance as you check your horoscope. They may provide a chuckle as you…
A Comic Strip Writer has Got to Understand Life
How are you benefiting from the partnership of an insightful New York City writer and a reflective Kansas City artist?…
You’ve Come a Long Way, Joanie!
When "Doonesbury’s" Joanie Caucus walked out on her husband and daughter last year, some saw her action as a dramatic…
How Cartoons Work: The Cartoon Code
An understanding of the impact of cartoons rests in part on an appreciation of the cartoon code, how and why…
Coming of Age! Media&Values at 21
Twenty-one… a magic age on the road from youth to maturity. In the publishing world, it is said that if…