THE TRUTH WILL OUT? EVER SINCE WATERGATE, IT SEEMS, THE PUBLIC'S MESSAGE...

The Boston Globe;  December 6, 1987 ;     700+ words ...Te media are the cause of everything. I am glad to hear this because I am a part of the media. "I bring down governments," I tell my children...is out. I decide what is up and what is down. Media. Me." I am one of the many tentacles of the beast...

Teachers must integrate media literacy into classroom lessons, experts...

Education Technology News;  October 23, 2002 ;     510 words ......hours a day immersed in media [such as the Internet...graduate degree program in media literacy, which is at...Considine is one of eight media literacy experts who teamed to write the paper Thinking Critically About Media: Schools and Families...things on their own, but media ...

Africa's Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging/Politics and...

African Studies Review;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...MEDIA IN AFRICA Francis Nyamnjoh. Africa's Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging. London: Zed Books...29.95. Paper. Ragnar Waldahl. Politics and Persuasion: Media Coverage of Zimbabwe's 2000 Election Harare: Weaver Press...

An officer's funeral and the media

Law & Order;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...MEDIA RELATIONS It's every law enforcement agency's worst nightmare...degree murder and remains in custody, awaiting trial. The media gave the story front page and lead newscast coverage, and...'s measured and respectful, not sensational. As long as the media are respectful, there is genuine value in having ...

Open Your Mind: The Seven Keys to Thinking Critically

Australian CPA;  March 1, 2004 ;     105 words ...Open Your Mind: The Seven Keys to Thinking Critically Francesco Sofo Allen & Unwin, $24.95, 240 pages...human resource development, believes that the art of thinking critically has been replaced by the mental equivalent of auto-pil...

Media Words: Anthropology on New Terrain

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Paye D. Ginsburg, Lila...tolerate. What did all this mean? For one thing, it means media are no longer relegated to the First World. They are everywhere. For scholars of media, studying this new global phenomenon benefits greatly from...

Integrating media literacy into the curriculum.

Academic Exchange Quarterly;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Abstract Media literacy education is required by most state...problem by showing teachers that by nature media literacy encourages an interdisciplinary...connections across content areas by teaching with media and about media. This article demonstrates...

United Nations threat to media freedom: Beijing Conference on Women...

Nieman Reports;  June 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Media coverage of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on...150-plus-page Platform for Action attempts to define the media's responsibility to promote the United Nation's version of...contain conclusory statements purporting to establish the media's role in contributing to violence against women and ...

Media and Society: Critical Perspectives

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Media and Society: Critical Perspectives. Graeme Burton. Berkshire, UK: Open University Press, 2005. 372 pp. $38.95. American media scholars wanting to introduce their undergraduate students to the critical study of media and society relationships have traditionally found themselves...

Media and the McVeigh execution

Law & Order;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...MEDIA RELATIONS The execution of Oklahoma City mass murderer Timothy...interest. Law enforcement had plenty of time to prepare for the media onslaught and did a very creditable job. Because the execution...Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was the lead agency in managing the media. Early last February, over four ...

The Media and Elections: A Handbook and Comparative Study

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The Media and Elections: A Handbook and Comparative...95 hbk. As any keen observer will attest, media and democracy are indispensable to each other...assess and compare the impact of existing media systems and practices on democracies. Nor...

Media Power: A Sociological Introduction/Media and Power

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Media Power: A Sociological Introduction. Ciaran McCullagh. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 218 pp. $69.95 hbk. $23.95 pbk. Media and Power. James Curran. New York: Routledge, 2002. $27.95 pbk. What do media scholars want to know about the media? For most U.S. researchers, it has been what...

Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture

Studies in Art Education;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture David...personal and communal identities; (2) children's focus on new media, especially visual technologies; (3) the fluid nature of...and make art. The reality of increased interaction with new media identified by Freedman and Stuhr is a crucial ...

Thinking Critically about Technological Literacy: Developing a Framework...

Technical Communication;  May 1, 2003 ;     85 words ......Technical communication quarterly 11, no. 3:267-288. Issues related to technological literacy can provide a useful frame for thinking critically about computer-based instruction in technical communication. This article identifies issues of technological literacy...

Zombies on roller coasters: American media transport too many people to...

Nieman Reports;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Media Unlimited How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives Todd Gitlin Metropolitan Books. 260 Pages. $25. When people talked about the media 10 years ago, they usually meant the news media. And, more often than not, they were unhappy with what they saw, according to polls by Andrew Kohut...