P.U.
Litzer Prizes: Who were the stinkiest journalists of 2001?
First
Amendment Bending Under Weight of Patriotism --
Whither dissent in a time of war?
FCC Moves to Intensify Media Consolidation: Sumner Redstone french kisses Mike Powell!
Media Companies Succeed in Easing Ownership Limits:
The power of the broadcasting lobby
Hot New FTC Study
says Violence is Aggressively Marketed to Kids, Violating Their Own Rating System
Read the text of the full report. (PDF
format) Includes excellent review of all major violence-effects studies
Why Study the Media?: A great
read for those temporary moments of doubt
Barry
Diller Criticizes AOL/Time Warner Merger--Every heard of the pot calling the kettle
black?
Prime
Suspects: The Corrosive Effects of Television News--
New study by Shanto Iyengar and Frank Gilliam on
how crime coverage can fracture a community
Few
Parents Use V-Chip: Most think it's for dipping
Study Finds Elitist Gap
Between Journalists and Readers: Inside baseball for the masses
How
Media Critic Howard Kurtz Lost His Way
Remaining Media Giants to Merge:
What's the Point of Staying Separate?
Television Usage Statistics:
Fascinating look at our fascination with the boob tube. Kinda sad.
TV Turnoff
Week: Get ready for next year
PBS
Segment on Free Air Time: Excellent 10 minutes on the whole problem
3,000
Studies link Violent Media to Real Violence: And they say there's no proof.
The
Future of TV: Convergence and Interactivity
UPI May Be Sold to Net Company
AOL/TW
Merger Could Ruin Internet: By Gary Chapman, head of the 21st Century Project.
Syndicated by LA Times.
RACE AND THE NETWORKS
ABC
NBC
The Sound Bite Society:
Television and Political Discourse
12 Steps to
Democratic Media -- The Nation
Can Antitrust Laws Break Up the Media Monopoly? :
A lawyer explains
LA
Times Admits Business Decisions Affected News Judgment: The shocking
expose by David Shaw
Deconstructing
the Media Machine by Robert W. Jensen
SPECIAL PACKAGE: CORPORATE MEDIA AND THE FUTURE
The New
Global Media by Robert W. McChesney--from The Nation
Survival Guide to the
New Media -- from Brill's Content
Kids
and Media Addiction: Report from the Kaiser Family Foundation
Viacom-CBS
Heads Defend Merger: Big surprise
'60 Minutes' says
tobacco film twists facts: Fascinating tale of corporate censorship, both real
and imagined.
Social
Change Through Television?: Screenwriters and activists are
collaborating to introduce progressive ideas into TV shows.
Criticisms
of the Marxist Model of Mass Media Effects: From the 1979 article by Anderson
and Sharrock
Who Owns What in the Mass Media:
Comprehensive guide by the Columbia Journalism on ownership, cross-ownership,
and vertical integration. Shocking and very useful.
Teen Health and the
Media: How television portrays and influences teen health habits
The Hollow Crusade Against
TV Violence Todd Gitlin says progressive activists need to be working on guns and
poverty rather than representation and messages. Worth arguing about.
Media
Usage Statistics: Outstanding collection of demographic and psychographic data
on American and Canadian media usage habits.
Can TV Improve Us?:
Intriguing article on some of the potential pro-social effects of television.
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