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are worthy of attention and establishing an unnatural prominence of topics. "...Increase salience of a topic or issue in the mass...

magazines and newspapers collectively determine "which items of information hold significance for society" (Tenorio, 2002), thereb...

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

200,000 violent acts on television alone" (Chatfield, 2002; p. 735). The study indicated that "Between the ages of two and 18, an ...

influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...

himself completely to his ambition (Roberge, 2002). This is evidenced by his decision to run for political office (Roberge, 2002)...

up, an idea that is still being felt in many rape cases where women are asked if they were acting seductively, wearing revealing c...

more than provide a reflection of the times, or to subconsciously inform women and girls about their roles. In many cases, the med...

basis for women to be perceived within the myriad literary components, the feminist critical theory serves to create a semblance o...

million people in the world who live outside their countries of birth or citizenship (Kent, 2002; U.S. Newswire, 2002). In 1990, t...

and Cosmopolitan. While both magazines market their product to a primarily female audience, it can readily be argued that Black B...

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

groups have long been at the forefront of controversy with their indignation toward government and strong-arm tactics. These ordi...

on the futures of children who are currently nurtured on violent images as pleasure. In an equal area of concern, owners of mass m...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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