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Press Freedom and Libel

they protested against the Iraq war at the beginning of 2003, when Iraqis did not have that right. However, common sense would dic...

Bill McKibben, Ben Bagdikian, and Michael Parenti Critiquing the Contemporary Media

how much they are influenced by "everyday" media without really knowing it. Within the realm of entertainment programs such as "fa...

Louis Liebovich's The Press and the Modern Presidency

and the Executive Branch for the worse. To support his arguments, Liebovich offers a discussion of the relationship between these...

Media Ethics' Decline and Postmodernity

ancillary factors of our culture such as what clothing we consider most appropriate or what foods we choose to eat. Sometimes how...

Overview of Media Giants Vivendi, News Corporation, and Time Warner

report? Literature Review In 1992, Ben Bagdikian reported that in the United States: * No more than 11 companies control half o...

Case Study of Dad's Pet Care Company

Care, 2004). The product line has expanded from dog biscuits to a variety of different types of dog and cat foods (Dads Pet Care, ...

Running for the US Presidency

the two main parties are able to vote in these races (1996). In some states, non-registered members can vote too. In general, the ...

Promotional Analysis of Harry Potter Books and Films

in a British field weeks before the books release (msn, 2004). Both of the above hits are sandwiched in between the ads...

George W. Bush's Inability to Find WMDs and Portrayal by the Media

certain degree of sympathy with Iraq and its leaders, regardless of how barbarian those leaders have proven themselves time and ti...

Assessment Questions Regarding Culture and Communication

the idea of a connection to a separate item while iconic items are those that are recognizable and perhaps universal (2002). In ...

A Globalization View

governments (405). For example, the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City on September 11, 2001 caused "s...

'News' and What it Means

radio station or television station (and most of them own all three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed ...

Criminal Profiler Job Description

"an unrealistic career goal for most people without prior experience" (OConnor, 2003). Academic requirements include an undergrad...

Urban Legend or Zeitgeist Myths

still believe that they will get cancer by overuse of their cell phones. By and large, this is not a bad urban legend in that it m...

Sexuality and Differing Gender Perceptions

Womens magazines are not the only entity attempting to homogenize the male/female experience, however. Numerous...

US and Mass Media

slant the truth in order to cater to their sponsors. Of course, the studios got around this by having their news anchors hawk ware...

Should Comcast Buy Disney?

to increase market share they will have to make acquisitions. Increasing market share in the same market also indicates horizontal...

Iraq War and Coverage by the Media

sporadic unless something major happens (like the killing of American civilians or the capture of Saddam Hussein). But critics hav...

The Culture of Fear by Glassner

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...

Death and Attitudes

but there was also a corresponding increase in the secularisation and commercialisation of the rituals surrounding death. In the 1...

Democracy and Media Globalization

of "players" in terms of owners and mega-merger conglomerates, such information becomes increasingly homogenized and increasingly ...

Paul Thaler's Take on the O.J. Simpson Trial, The Spectacle

in some respects hypocritical. He speaks about the evils of the industry but does not specifically point out what evils were media...

Turner's Theory and the Use of Text in Film as Interactive Social Practice

the change - dwindling audience numbers, and the need to cope with more complex narrative structures, for instance - were the outw...

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 Depiction of Women in the Third World and in Film

In nine pages there is a third world emphasis in this consideration of how the media especially cinema portrays women. Eight sour...

Perceptions and Influence of the Media

This paper consists of eight pages and discusses how perceptions are influenced by the media. Six sources are cited in the biblio...

Columbine Shootings and Media Influence

In a paper consisting of six pages it is argued that the media influenced the shootings at Littleton, Colorado's Columbine High Sc...

Nonprofit Organization and its Strategic Planning Evaluated

that. A childrens welfare agency is likely to embrace an entirely different organizational design from that of a for-profit finan...

Vietnam War and the Media

In five pages this paper discusses how the media influenced social perceptions in its depiction of the Vietnam War. Five sources ...

An Audience Analysis

This research paper consists of seven pages and analyzes the opinions of social critics regarding how print media is being dominat...