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- 441: '96 Elections
- ... Gore. Campaigning is done in many different ways, it is a technique used by the candidates in order for more people to recognize them and become more familiar with their ideas. It is done on television, in newspapers, signs that are put all over your town, and on the internet. The object is to put the adds in places where many people are going to see them. The internet and on television is a very good way to make the candidates known because of the tremendous internet traffic and increasing television viewers. Debating is a requirement of the elections and there are different kinds of debates. There are debates between the candidates and there are some between the possible vice-presidents. The speakers must be ...
- 442: Media Control
- ... to use tricks during sweeps month. Stations have increased sex and violence, aired greater quality entertainment programming, and even given away cash during breaks. The hiring of "celebrities" is only part of the entertainment problem. Television has turn to "action news" to capture it's viewers. Action news is news that haves action and must be in the first 15 seconds of the news cast. "If it bleeds it leads". Violence ... declined. This type of journalism does not accurately portray the world around us, and has the potential to cause paranoia. These are problems caused by filter one. When a large company owns a paper or television station it creates a conflict of interest. Bill Kovatch, who has won numerous Pulitzer prizes as editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, resigned under pressure after the paper ran a series of stories about ... owned by General Electric. These mergers are monopolies, and they compromise the integrity of the news they report. The American media is the most free in the world. The First Amendment guarantees that newspapers and television stations may print what they choose, yet they choose to print substandard information. Profit margin, big business practices, ratings, and advertising money control the information we receive and alter the decisions we make. Only ...
- 443: Violence And Pornography
- ... available period, and some could even argue this point against the types of women used in pornography: “A far greater variety of female types are shown as desirable in pornography than mainstream films and network television have ever recognized: fat women, flat women, hairy women, aggressive women, older women, you name it” (Carol 25). If we could all decide on just exactly what pornography is and what is acceptable, there wouldn ... way, these youngsters cannot expect other adults to act any differently. Therefore they accept this type of behavior as normal. Diana Russell claims that tactics like these are being used more often in advertising and television, which has led media watchdogs and anti-porn activists to believe that this sort of masked imitation of pornography tricks mainstream television viewers into having an “everybody’s doing it” attitude about pornography. She also feels that this attitude subconsciously leads them into seeking pornography out (39). We need to show the younger generation that everyone ...
- 444: Global Broadcasting Systems
- ... broadcasting systems. The Preface says that things are changing so fast that the book will probably be outdated by the time we read it. On the other hand, it does provide a clear picture of television and other media around the world, at the moment in time when the authors did their research. The writers got help from their colleagues, as well as questions and comments by students, in order to ... the aim of the media distributors. Many professionals in the field "believe that the future is a multimedia retrieval system for everyone" (p. 1). World communications systems can make it possible to get any almost television show in the world, from almost anywhere in the world. Different cultures might require different types of programming around the world. On the other hand, shows like CNN have made the formats of programs uniform around the world. Will we have diversity, or uniformity, in the future? Chapter Two is titled "World Systems Overview." There are hundreds of millions of television sets and radios all over the world. Countries like the US, Canada, and England have sophisticated broadcast systems. Developing countries like those in Central and South America do not. Some countries have private broadcasters, ...
- 445: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World
- ... for the society in which she lives. (Wolfheim) Like Brave New World_characters escaping from reality through the use of soma, Montag's wife, and many other characters, escape through watching a sophisticated form of television. This television system covers three of the walls of the Montag's TV room (they can't afford to buy the screen to cover the fourth wall), has a control unit that allows the watchers to interact ... with this is that Montag's wife takes the program as a substitute for reality. She is almost addicted to the program, much as people were with soma in Brave New World. Bradbury uses this television and it's programs as a way of showing the escape he is worried people will look for in the future. Without actively questioning society's values, he is concerned that people will look ...
- 446: Neve Campbell
- ... love of acting, not only on a stage but to reach higher in her career and be a movie star. Neve’s career as a movie star was just the beginning of her debut on television. Neve Campbell appeared in the NBC movie “ I know my son is alive”. She also played Daisy in the television series “Catwalk”. But Neve Cambell’s television career is most well known for her performances in “Party of Five”, as Julia Slalinger. This show won an Emmy for “best show in 1995. Neve made appearances on “Kids in the hall”, “kung- ...
- 447: I Want To Believe
- ... between the mass media and its effects on peoples opinions and how people appear to be led by the media, contending that the emergence of alien abductions has become more prolific since the advent of television and extraterrestrial beings are the result of a war of the ratings as opposed to a the war of the worlds. The final part of this project will sum up the subject matter that has ... world. Since the 1950s, the media has systematically bombarded a large portion of the worlds population with stories of beings from outer space, which now seems to be reaching a crescendo with the arrival of television programs like the X Files. This onslaught by the media, appears to be helping to fuel peoples insatiable appetite for the UFO phenomena, which is good news for the television produces as their ratings skyrocket "Our love of novelty is proving to be a menace and our aesthetic sense-the basis of all our culture-is likewise being exploited in order to force our ...
- 448: Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim P
- ... thought it would. Orwell, more than likely, would have made note of, but wouldn't be astonished by, the fact that in 1983 the average American household spent over 7 hours in front of the television every night. The number is even greater for those households which currently subscribe to a cable service. Those families watch television for more that 58 hours a week. That is more that 2 days straight without sleeping, eating, or going to the bathroom. He also wouldn't have passed by this magazine advertisement that could be ... of everyone under it's power, and has complete physical and psychological surveillance on all people at all time. This is exemplified in the fact that the government can look back at you through your television, or telescreen as it is called in the book, and the governmet has set up telescreens almost anywhere you can go. While they don't have telescreens in unpopulated country sides, they have gone ...
- 449: A Futuristic Interview With Romeo
- A Futuristic Interview With Romeo SCENE I: Setting: On the set of ‘Time Voyager', a new television series. Characters: ANN - Announcer ROMEO - Romeo ANN: Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome again to this week's edition of Time Voyager. In case this is the first time you have tuned in and are unfamiliar with ... could be not telling the truth but have me under the impression that you are telling the truth simply to put me at ease with you! ANN: Good sir, I do not lie on national television... ROMEO: What sort of words are those? Television? Why, that sounds like some kind of magical ability to see into my soul! Back! I am forced to depart! And if you resist... (Draws rapier. Audience goes ‘Ooooohhhhh'.) ANN: At least tell us ...
- 450: Sex in Advertising
- ... and morals in general have been contested throughout both American and world history (The Journal of Advertising, pg 73). Commercials have become a risque as standards loosen. Networks, in an effort to compete with cable television, have relaxed thier censorship standards. Advertising standards have always been defined by the public's tolerance and the shifting moods of courts and government agencies. Even though there are concerns about sex and advertising on ... Hygiene products, deodorants, laxatives... and simular products are generally not accepted, " the NBC code of 1943 noted. Today women can model lingerie or even breast feed a child (as seen in a Gerber ad) on television. Consider a much noted A Calvin Klein ad insert in New York and Los Angeles editions of Vanity Fair, was described by Advertising Age as "boy meets girl, boy meets boy, boy meet self". That ... as war torn Cambodia are being flooded with the promise of the good life. Beer commercials in Cambodia show fit young men leaping and sprinting while promises of physical and intellectual prowess flash on the television screen. In one popular spot, a man cracks an egg into his beer, and the yoke transforms into a woman, he drinks down the attractive brew with a slurp ( Yahoo! News, yahoo.com/headlines/ ...
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