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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...

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...

Methods of Qualitative Research

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Messages Content Analysis

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

Media Role, Urbanization, and Community

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Democracy and Media Globalization

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

Media, Marketing, Customers, Public Relations, and Marketing Questions

that got more than five million responses" (Aaker, 1996; p. 240). 2. Explain why selling private brands often enables large retail...

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...

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...