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every single time she went to the library it would rain, but there can never be a cause and effect relationship. Similarly, there ...

insider activities by people such as Dennis B. Levine of Drexel Burnham Lambert during the 1980s can be considered quaint part of ...

could readily relate. His approach to comedy was like his approach to life: if you cannot laugh, you cannot live. Indeed, Berles...

they have so come to believe that a meaningful life is tied to what and how many products they purchase (pp. 112). Furthermore, Co...

few shots of a good looking, blue-eyed young man. There is the glare of the sunlight which is rather obvious. One shot shows this ...

the Royal Institution in London, England. Images appeared on his television set which were complete with tonal gradations of light...

has bias as well. Media reporting and slanting can make a good company seem bad; can make a bad company seem wonderful and in gene...

million and that the number of violent crimes committed by juveniles will more than double by 2010 (Briscoe, 1997). Unless action...

and trust-busting sentiments, put the brakes on the greediest corporate pillagers and the concentration of economic power; demande...

If we isolate out industry consideration to the cable television companies that we can look this as a mature industry. In 1997 the...

2001). The Japanese manufacturers allocate larger percentages to local spots - Nissan put 35 percent into spot TV, Honda put 33 pe...

You Being Served, all serve up their own dose of British humor and stereotypes. Each show depicts the typical frouncy old woman wh...

wanted to visit. Perhaps the episode that most prominently features differences in race and ethnicity is when Jerry convinces the ...

are disappointed if it doesnt. What kind of message does this send our children? According to Strasburger (1999, 103) it sends a...

reinforced over interactive learning, it can be stated. Shows such as Barney and Sesame Street encourage small spuds to become cou...

to play unsupervised or accompany them to a park. Immense social and economic changes have dictated shifts in how families ...

of a television they will likely watch it. In addition, when people mindlessly watch television it is more likely the case that...

quality programs to choose from. While there is the hit series Friends, for example, there are few other comedies that can compete...

but still protecting and serving in the community). Or they begin to "remember" world events as they are presented on television. ...

the media" (Fowles, 2001). Why is TV a stand-in for the other problems, and what are those problems? The reason TV makes such a g...

can be explained by the growing acceptance in our culture of anything that is off color, illegal, or even immoral. The type of gl...

is how science fiction portrays this futuristic idea. Indeed, the extent to which films and books have expounded upon the potenti...

content that may be objectionable. As an example, this particular writer/researcher has a daughter who is 11 years old. The tele...

with the Stars and Homeland Security USA. The commercials themselves were for companies and products like Kay Jewelers, McDonald...

researcher that suggests that these differences relate as much to socioeconomics as they do to biology. She emphasizes that the i...

which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

then while watching there may be scenes that are not appropriate. There are ratings at the beginning of most shows so that parents...

the presidency, and is doing well in the polls, there is a sense that diversity is a reality. In fact, the ticket to the white hou...

Coates (1985) looked at the idea of an environmental scan more detail, and identified four goals; the first is the detection of m...

innocuous concept as plugging a manufacturers product, for the advertising industry has become a well-versed and slick operation a...