Starting Point: It was bound to happen.
For years I shopped at a neighborhood grocery. Run by a Vietnamese family, it had a fresh fish market, wonderful...
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Outside From the Inside: Television in Jail
Jail is a cold place. Walls of thick concrete block every intrusion by the sun. The cells, too, are made...
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 المزيدOne Journalist’s View: Informed Voters Must Reach Beyond Images
A major complaint often heard about the coverage of any campaign is, "Why don't they cover the issues? As a...
اقرأ المزيدThe Selling of the President: 1984
During the 1984 campaign I decided to do a very long piece on President Reagan for the evening news. It...
اقرأ المزيدReagan’s ‘Image-Makers’ Redefined the Presidency
"In this technological, secular society, we find in television our deepest rituals, rituals that tell us who we are, where...
اقرأ المزيدEarly Experiments in School Television Production
The postwar decades, when television was on the rise and bringing dislocation and mini-revolutions to many aspects of American life,...
اقرأ المزيدDemocracy Requires Access to Media Alternatives
Regardless of the candidate/issue covered or the medium covering it, the 1988 presidential election represents journalism at its worst. Each...
اقرأ المزيدTestimony Reveals Complexity of Sexual Violence Issue in Media
In 1982, in an effort to better understand the growing complexity of the entertainment culture in relation to the portrayal...
اقرأ المزيدCommunicating for Justice
Development and reform of global communications have been a continuing focus of mainline Protestant groups worldwide over the last 20...
اقرأ المزيدABC’s of Media Literacy: What Can Pre-Schooolers Learn?
Introduction Three-year-old Hannah looks up from the television and announces that she wants to invite Cassie (the youngest dragon from...
اقرأ المزيدLP# 5A Why We Communicate? Three Basic Tasks
Knowing why a media message is being sent is important because it gives us a context for interpretation and clues...
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