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Eye Catching News Stories
819 wordsPbs role is to ensure that there is a forum on television for subjects which otherwise may not be available on television. They entertain and educate children, represent the arts and provide music based programming. Also they are responsible for presenting controversial news stories without any biases. In theory they are free from the vices of advertising and greed. The public broadcasting network is set up to serve the public. Unfortunately, the air of objectivity surrounding PBS has come under...
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Police Department Video Tape
1,419 words... of so many people who live in the community. Now, there would be no jobs, no places to buy anything, no hope, no future. All because of these fires of April, 1992. For years to come, sociologist will be trying to find out why this happened. What were the deep roots that ignited this tragedy, this rebellion? There will be many questions and many answers. However, there was really only one direct, immediate cause that was the flash point; when the jury in the televised trial of the four office...
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Television News Informing The Public About Significant Events
913 wordsH 2 >Discuss to what extent two television stations broadcasting to audiences in Western Australia succeed in informing the public about significant events, in a fair and balanced way. Television news is an entertainment medium intending to inform the public of current issues in society, but that is not its prime function. It also serves as a program that helps viewers to see issues from different perspectives. Some perfect fairness cannot exist, so bias of some sort must be present in al...
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Number Of Women Presidential Election
1,118 words... or interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support. ' (London) Many times the media often bring up the worst in a public official or candidate as seen by that of Gary Condit. They cover low salient issues that are irrelevant to everyday life and also overplay or cover the issue too much. Another example is with the Texas Governor, George W. Bush. The main issue on the media's mind was the rumor of his past cocaine use. They should have been covering his views on ...
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Television Violence Senior Citizens
1,228 wordsCNN EVENING NEWS ANALYSIS Television is at the heart of American culture: its power and influence are unparalleled. Approximately two-thirds of Americans report that they get most of their information about the world from TV. Though influential, this phenomenon is relatively new. In 1956, only 4. 6 million homes in the United States had television sets and no programming was available during many hours every day. By 1990, there were 92. 1 million homes with TVs and the average viewer could selec...
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Gangsta Rappers Snoop Doggy
834 wordsThe review of Hate, Rape, and Rap by Tipper Gore In the scandalous article Hate, Rape, and Rap Tipper Gore talks about the negative impact of media and modern entertainment industry has on our society. Media is an entertaining view of reality that transmits information to people around the globe. People consider media as the ultimate freedom of expression. However the freedom in media is also a source of violence in society. Society is particularly vulnerable to the powerful images of violent be...
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David Koresh Outer Space
1,715 wordsThe key ingredients that make the society in the book Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel seem so full of mordant farce are chaos, technology, belief and faith run amok. The book is set in our present year of 1999, and it seems that all of the conventional thoughts and explanations that help life make sense, are no longer needed. All that remain are the lunatic explanations that have gained adherence within society. Although the society in the book might seem more like an exaggerated versi...
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Political Science Quarterly Number Of Women
2,447 wordsPolitics and the media have long been intimately involved with each other, with media strongly setting an agenda in which politics is very important. (Harris 1999, p. 167) Our perceived reality of the real world is largely a product of the media. (Harris 1999, p. 186) It is not known which influences more but there are definitely two sides to the story. Many studies have been done to decide but each comes out with different answers. Many say that the media has more of an impact on politics than ...
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Franklin D Roosevelt Sir Alexander
981 wordsMy topic for the top one hundred news stories of the century is Penicillin. I choose this subject because I felt I needed to prove that it is more than just an antibiotic or just a mold. In the following paragraphs I hope to make my point clear. Penicillin itself can be used to treat many and a wide variety of diseases. It can be used for treatment of respiratory infections to sexually transmitted diseases. We can use it on humans and animals too. The following are some disease that can be treat...
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