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Violence and the News

In five pages this paper assesses the violence percentages featured in 4 different types of news programs. There are no other sou...

Encapsulated Story of Babe Ruth

In five pages this paper critiques an article that appeared in U.S. News and World Report in 1994 on Babe Ruth in terms of the inf...

Asia's Continuing Quest for Justice for the Comfort Women

Recent news has focused attention on the abduction into sexual slavery of great numbers of women from various Asian countries duri...

Shifting Media Formats Comparing News on the Web by Comparing Five Web Sites

these sites are similar. For the purposes of this paper five such sites were visited with the intent of comparing and contrasting...

Summer Vacation Exercise in Creative Playwrighting

In six pages this original play that is based upon a genuine news story discusses a sexually compromising situation involving a ma...

News Media and Violence

In ten pages this paper examines the news media's reporting of violent acts and the motivation behind such reports. Five sources ...

Success of the ABC News Program Nightline

was still in office. The hostages were released immediately after Ronald Reagan was sworn in for his first term in office. After...

Arguing Against Tabloid Press and Media Compromise

In sixteen pages this research paper charges the media with compromising its position with manipulating the public trust by reinfo...

Racial Bias in the Media

This paper discusses how racial and other forms of bias affect the way that news stories are reported. This nine page paper has si...

U.S. Crime

publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...

Folk Ballads and the Theme of Murder

and evolving over time, this form of "news" tended to keep the sensational details, but in most cases, retained very little refere...

Media Bias and Television News Magazines

Media bias in such TV news magazines as CBS' 60 Minutes, Dateline NBC, and ABC's 20/20 is examined in a paper consisting of fiftee...

News and the Media, Which Comes First?

In ten pages this report examines whether the news or the media comes first in terms of the 'newsworthiness' of an event in terms ...

Articles on 1983 Economic Prosperity

In five pages the economic prosperity of 1983 is contrasted and compared in the articles 'Restoring a delicate balance; after a ba...

Women and TV News Broadcasts

Truth has struggled to remain a respected commodity in reporting even in the light of such undesirable concepts as yellow journali...

Modern Day Television Reporting

an intriguing innovation when the Weather channel first aired, however. "From its start in 1982, The Weather Channel has been pel...

Media Depiction of the Affair Between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky

In nine pages ths report discusses media politics in terms of how this extramarital affair between the President of the United Sta...

Privacy Invasion by the Media

In five pages this paper examines how privacy is intruded upon by the media in the name of news with cinematic examples provided t...

Society and Media

In five pages this paper examines social identity and how it is produced by the media with the public policy effects resulting fro...

Michael Parenti's Inventing Reality

In seven pages this paper presents a critical examination of this book that considers how news media politics often results in pad...

Desensitizing Aspects of Graphic TV

In 2 pages this topic is examined within the context of Chan Khong, a Vietnamese nun who claimed that American television news cov...

Accountancy of the 21st Century

In eight pages this paper analyzes the first 20 years of the 21st century in a consideration of the accounting field and possible ...

Book Review of James Fallow's Breaking the News How the Media Undermine American Democracy

the press separating itself from its ability to act as a public forum for political issues. Fallow brings to our attention ...

Popular Culture and the Influence of TV News

scientists, parents and educators are becoming more and more concerned about the influence television has on the lives of American...

Iraq and the Embedded Journalists' Controversy

Weighing up the risks for the sake of fair reporting; Iraq war. (Overseas news). The Times (London, England), p.7. The au...

High Profile Criminal Cases and the Influence of the Media

be true of this case, but the danger of an overzealous media is that it turns the public into heroes. Perhaps not wanting to be em...

Social Perceptions and News Magazines

over the Washington-area sniper who began shooting people at random during the latter part of 2002 (Abramsky B11). Even while "th...

Embedded Reporting, is CNN Coverage Good for Families?

its home state. At the same time, some of its imbedded reporters are from Georgia and have traveled with units from the region. Co...

Federalism in Current Events

nations highest court. For them, it would have been a nonsensical question. A little, or even a lot, of aid flowing incidentally t...

1st Amendment and TFRs

racial profiling as the dog days of September lingered. It was simply a non-issue. As weeks and years pass, airport security will ...