Essays 841 - 870
The Internet allowed individuals to access information about, and exchange ideas with, those from other cultures without being lim...
perspective. The free press in the United States is predicated upon the notion of freedom of information, that nothing should be w...
of "players" in terms of owners and mega-merger conglomerates, such information becomes increasingly homogenized and increasingly ...
to increase market share they will have to make acquisitions. Increasing market share in the same market also indicates horizontal...
the change - dwindling audience numbers, and the need to cope with more complex narrative structures, for instance - were the outw...
sporadic unless something major happens (like the killing of American civilians or the capture of Saddam Hussein). But critics hav...
They find escape in the medias presentation of the celebrities and it seems that in times of political and global chaos they want ...
areas has become considerable. As de Cauter (2001) notes,...
is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...
were people that were also torn by the events of the war. Media coverage of those people, however, revealed an image that from an...
of priests are true servants of God and their parishioners but, as is always typical with the media, sensationalism sells. Therefo...
influence of the television news programs on the American public and on our understanding of political, social and international i...
a concept created by Andrew Weil, MD (2004). He claims that it refers to the best of both worlds and an integration of alternativ...
does is to expose the media for what it is, which is an opportunistic and often inaccurate and inept body of reporters that is onl...
but there was also a corresponding increase in the secularisation and commercialisation of the rituals surrounding death. In the 1...
this encompasses cartoons and comics, sports, soap operas and films through to snuff videos. The portrayal of violence n cartoons ...
people closer to the processes of arresting suspects and investigating crime scenes than ever before (Getty, 2001). Law enforceme...
paper, we will explore four web sites to determine exactly what promotional strategies are used - and how/if these strategies can ...
this was a publication where many different items of news described the events of a recent period and were run end to end(Smith, 1...
two-fold. The lower floors of the building would be family orientated, with activities offered for the families staying in the res...
which provided free education, pensions, and social services to the people and peasants. Instead, the self-sacrificing citizen of ...
States. Regardless of the fact that the U.S. is generally depicted as such a violent and dangerous nation, one has to remember tha...
has to wonder how the media is influenced, or if the media influences the political processes. When one stops to consider who is ...
something Online (n.d.). About 40 percent of others research the product Online but buy it in a store (Zolzer, n.d.). The majority...
and for many companies these will be higher than initially planned due to hidden or unexpected costs, such as increased fees for t...
meaning information positive to the organisations goals. However, for governments, especially in countries where there is freedom ...
life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...
concepts and have produced new technologies and data largely based upon past theoretical research and evaluation. Unders...
The use of educational software enables truly student-led education, ensuring the student masters one concept before progressing t...
anything which did not fit into that perspective was either ignored or discarded as being atypical. From the Western point of view...