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Keep up with what’s on TV. Watching and discussing television programs — movies, specials, even regular series — can be…
CHILDREN: Learning to Decipher TV Culture
How many two-year-olds do not know Big Bird or can’t recognize the Golden Arches? Speaking, listening, writing! reading, and watching…
YOUTH: Wise Dating Is No Game
Dating can be an exciting beginning to getting to know someone — but you’d never know it from The All…
PASTORING: ‘Cosby’ Preaches Loving Lessons
The word is now out officially and it has been delivered by no less a source than priest-sociologist Andrew Greeley…
Video Values: Questions for the Reflective Viewer
“There’s trouble right here in River City…why, the boys are out back of the corn crib reading Capt’n Billy’s Whiz…
Dawn of a New Decade
For some organizations. ten years is the end of an era. For Media&Values. its only the beginning. We’ve seen a…
Second Decade Marks Move to Wider Arena
Fiber versus fat. Running hard versus standing still. Lean but not mean. Elizabeth Thoman, CHM, executive editor of Media&Values, is…
MINORITIES: TV Stereotypes Ignore Dramas Of Life
The media analysts are right. Television may be "the major educating and socializing institution in America." So what does it…
J.R. in Hell: Sin and Salvation on the Small Screen
Academic television critics have been discussing the content of dramatic television recently as “text,” not recognizing the religious connotations implied…
How Well Does Television Handle Social Issues?
Ever since Newton Minow, then chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, accused television of being a ‘vast wasteland,” media analysts…