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Media Monopoly and Democracy

the press that acts as a check and balance on the way political power is wielded, able to questions decisions and policies and inf...

Women's Freedom and the Detriment of Marriage

is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...

Strategies For Health Counselors

difficult illness to overcome. Although this booklet is written for physicians, any health care professional could use the strateg...

Skills Needed by a Forensic Nurse

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

The Problem With News Media Today

like NPR and PBS are under attack as there is political pressure for them to be less critical ("Bill Moyers: "Big Media is Ravenou...

Medical Treatment, Complimentary Alternative Medicine

a concept created by Andrew Weil, MD (2004). He claims that it refers to the best of both worlds and an integration of alternativ...

Media Messages Content Analysis

influence of the television news programs on the American public and on our understanding of political, social and international i...

Prejudice Against Catholics in Television and Film

of priests are true servants of God and their parishioners but, as is always typical with the media, sensationalism sells. Therefo...

Media Role, Urbanization, and Community

areas has become considerable. As de Cauter (2001) notes,...

Celebrity Depiction by the Media

They find escape in the medias presentation of the celebrities and it seems that in times of political and global chaos they want ...

Persian Gulf War and Iraqi Portrayal by the Media

were people that were also torn by the events of the war. Media coverage of those people, however, revealed an image that from an...

Criticla Questions in Modern Society

government, constituting an educated elite while the rest of society was expected merely to follow and obey. Democracy is founded...

Media News 'Dumbing Down' as a Result of Commercialism

to a public that wants sound bites, simple stories, sensationalism and ideas that are not too complex. It does appear that news me...

A Prototype for a Media Player

many of the present expectations associated with the various controls. This level of recognition helps with the interaction, as le...

Media Coverage and the Consumption of Alcohol

alcohol as a positively valued activity (Snyder, et al, 2000). In other words, drinking, as it is portrayed in ads for wine, liquo...

Children and the Effects of Media Violence

four hour per day programming incorporates all sorts of fare all the time. It is because of this trend, and the trend to ignore th...

Methods of Qualitative Research

data, the use of the objective viewpoint in the development of qualitative methods suggests the balance between differing perspect...

How Racism in the Criminal Justice System and Media is Reflected in Literature

In six pages this paper discusses how racism by the media and the criminal justice system is reflected in the novels Native Son, A...

Analysis of the Internet's Past, Present, and Future

was no such thing as an Internet. In fact, the term "Internet" wasnt widely used until 1982 (PBS Online, 1997). The term itself, ...

Russia's Authoritarian Media

perspective. The free press in the United States is predicated upon the notion of freedom of information, that nothing should be w...

Social Divisions Reflected and Reinforced by Representation of the Mass Media

culture may be seen as the culture of ordinary people, but has a basis in history, Strinati (1995), argues that this is usually se...

Health Issues, Diet, and the Media

There are those who believe that advertising can actually be beneficial in promoting health and nutrition; after all, television e...

Intercultural Communications and Media Coverage of Political Events

The Internet allowed individuals to access information about, and exchange ideas with, those from other cultures without being lim...

The Impact of E-Commerce on the Entertainment Industry

something Online (n.d.). About 40 percent of others research the product Online but buy it in a store (Zolzer, n.d.). The majority...

Media Studies and Theory

concepts and have produced new technologies and data largely based upon past theoretical research and evaluation. Unders...

Past Plays and Their Present Relevance

and the people they know are not perfect. This offers us realism in a very powerful manner. At the same time, however, it is also ...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Why 'The Culture of Fear' Remains Alive and Well in the U.S. and Australia

States. Regardless of the fact that the U.S. is generally depicted as such a violent and dangerous nation, one has to remember tha...

Political Process and the Media

has to wonder how the media is influenced, or if the media influences the political processes. When one stops to consider who is ...

Online Promotional Tactics of 4 Websites

paper, we will explore four web sites to determine exactly what promotional strategies are used - and how/if these strategies can ...