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Martin P. Wattenberg's Decline of American Political Parties

In two pages this 1996 text is reviewed regarding its treatment of the media's role and the management of political parties. Ther...

Media and Chicago's Highway Construction During the 1950s

This paper examines the media's portrayal of Chigago's highway construction and other industrial projects during the 1950s. This ...

Islam Perceptions

In three pages this paper discusses the media's role in shaping perceptions and misperceptions of outsiders regarding Islam in a c...

Media Influence in the Modern World

in fact, rests in the United States. While the worlds top five media corporations control both electronic and print forms...

The Top 5 Global Media Companies: Ownership, Corporate Linkage and Political and Cultural Implications

the Western world. Most of this ownership, in fact, rests in the United States. The corporate connections of these media...

Twentieth Century and the Culturally Conflicted Media

cultural influence and at times, military advantage for the country. At the same time, the various forms of mass media have deve...

Immunizations, Current Knowledge, and Mass Media

reported unusually harsh outbreaks of influenza and the potential for harm, increases in the pursuit of immunizations in young chi...

Contemporary Women and Sexism

Women At the turn of the century, very few women worked outside of their own home. Many women actually were very intelligent and ...

Gap Between Youth and Adult Culture Growing Wider

our new culture with such new pursuits as video games, new styles of music, and even new forms of art that play a negative role in...

Media and the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

Global Communication and Marketing; Disney

portfolio of brands to differentiate its content, services and consumer products", this indicates the strategy of integration. ...

Journalists in the Age of Bloggers and Other Non Traditional Journalism Forms

this latter definition of the way that publishing is taking place may be seen as more controversial, while some blogs and publishe...

Media and its Influence on Children

true that if the parents do their part, in a very active way, the media can prove far less damaging. However, there is ultimately ...

An Analysis of Media Violence and its Impact on Children and Teens

There is no doubting the fact that the media sometimes incites violence (DuRant, Champion and Wolfson, 2006). The media is in fac...

Media Images and Anorexia

food. It seems unconscionable that in a land of plenty, there is starvation. Yet, this is a psychological problem. The sufferer is...

Lazy Reporting Is Now the Norm

justify an invasion of Iraq, the media "rubber stamped" President Bushs agenda, rather than acting as an independent watchdog and ...

The Feminist Critic as Parlay to Modern Media

of these is how body image is represented in the media as a means of marginalizing and objectifying women. Burke reports t...

Otherness in the Framing of News Stories

the approached adopted in the investigation and in the article that there is a separation of the events into a cultural context, p...

Mental Health Changes on TV

For decades, the media has portrayed people with mental illnesses or disorder in such a way that others did not want to be around ...

Cultural Images in the Media

The broader version promoted by Hall is that a "text" of any kind - "be it a book, movie, or other creative work - is not simply p...

Media and Environmental Issues

any news interest in the first place: The scientific conviction that global warming is happening and is being caused by man incre...

AIDS and Media Advocacy Campaign

who are HIV positive or already in full-blown AIDS, inasmuch as 8,994 children under thirteen were diagnosed with AIDS, while anot...

Issues Permeating the 2004 Presidential Candidates

prescription drugs, I would choose Grandma every time" (Wise, 2002). Howard Dean mirrors Sharptons opinion that President is doin...

A Legal Courtroom Visit

the description of the room itself and the way the people orient to that room. There is, for example, the distinct separation of ...

Minority-Owned Media Outlets

is cause for serious concern (Rawls, 2003, See also Wilson and Gutierrez, 1995). "The cultural, economic and social gap between w...

TMI News Coverage Back in 1979

editorials and newspapers articles, a student writing on this subject may conclude that indeed, there is some bias in various publ...

Why There Are Few Women Running for Office

as solid political material. As a result, there are handfuls of women politicians on the national level, perhaps a few more women ...

Mass Media and Global Communications

with the technology that allows instantaneous communication and fast transportation has made it possible to communicate to almost ...

Critique and Analysis of Wag the Dog Film by Barry Levinson

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

Media Distortion

to take lightly. However, it appears that those who report the news do not take into consideration the very lives their stories a...