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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 ...

Foreign Policy and the Impact of the Media

attention as possible to whatever political plight they represent (Meyers, 1997). Media coverage is something that cannot be avoi...

Crack in the Box, A Critical Perspective

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

Crime Investigations and the Media's Role

has also led to accusations of copycat crimes. Overall, it has been determined that the best balance of this relationship is too m...

Media Representation of Africa

elected to Prime Minister of Ghana. At the onset he was very popular and effective in getting his programs supported by parliament...

Function of Printed Media

been used before with old messages. However, when they are read it was possible to put them into a different order, to place diffe...

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...

Brazil's Media

Brazils difficulties, and comparing it with the situation in the United States, an examination of theory is helpful. II. Theory:...

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...

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...

American Society and Body Image

is telling women that they should be very, very thin. While perhaps some women can shrug off such images--like Camryn Manheim who ...

National Anthem and Tobacco Industry Congressional Proposals

years(OMalley 2003). However, even with this enormous award, which effectively gets the states off their backs, the tobacco compan...

Comparison of Films Robert Altman's Nashville and Robert Drew's Primary

Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...

Culture and Media

accepted portrayals of violent, true-to-life occurrences that television has successfully imparted upon impressionable juveniles i...

Egypt and Media Accessibility

In five pages this paper examines Egypt in a consideration of the media's role with print, TV, radio, and the Internet each discus...

Electronic Media and Books

wave of the future. Computers have, in fact, become one of the most innovative and captivating educational tools currently in use...

Media Monopoly and Ben Bagdikian's Views on Reform

(and most of them own all three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They m...

Portrayal of Racial Stereotypes in the Media

to recognize the implications of such attitudes is the only way to fight against its continued allowance. Descriptions of such ra...

Media and Women

creatures that nurture and tend house. We can look at almost any television commercial and note that women are often the ones t...

Library Science Challenges

Libraries need to respond to those challenges by initiating programs that will cater to the needs of present and future users, in ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Portrait of a President

with church leaders to encourage them to help the poor and disadvantaged in their communities, and to end abortion. I am deeply sy...

Media's Responsibility for the Obesity Epidemic

would work to resolve the problem and in fact, some people report that religious activity has helped them lose weight. The author ...

Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...