In a quote from Harold Evans, the editor of The Times, he recalls how Murdoch would, " jab fingers at headlines which he thought could have been more supportive of Mrs Thatcher." ... The press interview numerous people connected with specific industrial disputes, however they only print the quotes that back their overall argument. ...
"This means, in practice, that the mass media are not like any other business or service industry, but can carry out some essential tasks for society, especially in the cultural and political arena" (Quote from McQuail in Schultz, J 1994; 21). ...
Benjamin Radford, a psychology graduate from the University of New Mexico, quotes Douglas Rushkoff, a journalist from Discover magazine when he described the TV show Americas Next Top Model as "observing what young anorexics are willing to do to one another.... Radford agrees with Striegel-Moore's when he quotes Liz Dittrich, a clinical psychologist, who said "[r]epeated exposure to the thin ideal via the various media can lead to the internalization of this ideal. ...
Their ideological and socialization functions are continually being defined and perfected in developing countries as one of the indispensable factors in the mobilization of general population for programs of national development'(Chimutengwende, quoted in Ziegler and Asante, 1992, p41). ...
Ever since the advertising boom of the 1950's, America has given way to propaganda at every turn in everyday life. According to Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell in Propaganda & Persuasion, Propaganda is "the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct...
BODY IMAGE IN THE MEDIA How does the media influence our body image? In what forms, does the media influence our perceptions about our body? These were the two questions that I asked myself in order to do the research paper and the panel discussion. In my opinion, I would agree that the media doe...
For example, in the book The End of Advertising as We Know it, the author lists key points a corporation can do in order to preach about their ad truthfully and righteously in the following quote: "Tell the truth, tell it all, and tell it fast. ...
In the British press the voice was overwhelmingly white where minority group members are quoted less often than majority group members-even when the topics directly concern them and even when minority experts "experts" are available for comment. ...
McGowen stated that the Times gave the murder credit for his principles and described the incident as an act of protest against white supremacy, when in fact that article stated how mentally deranged the man was and quoted his friend calling the act insane. ...
This quote by Huxley is very similar to when Obama said ISIS is a "Jayvee team" (which means a team that isn't very good) and that he believed there was a clear "distinction between the capacity and reach of a Bin Laden network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes" (Schwartz, 2014, p.1). ... Huxley quoted Hitler in his essay, "Propaganda in a Dictatorship", where he said, "All effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and ...
Is any cliché in American public discourse quite as stale as "liberal media bias-? Probably not, unless it's "tax-and-spend liberal."" Is there a literate adult living in this country who hasn't heard or read that dull, deceptive phrase literally hundreds or even thousands of times? Not unless said person resides permanently in a wilderness beyond range of all TV, radio, newspaper delivery, and the U.S. Postal Service. ...
As some of his fans accept his views on women and sexuality as the norm in society, for example a song that quotes lyrics such as, Oh, now he's raping' his own mother, abusing a whore, snorting coke, and we gave him the Rollin Stone cover?' ...
Sociology Essay How useful is the concept of elite' for understanding the distribution of power in either Britain or the United States? Introduction In America perhaps only race is a more sensitive subject than the way we sort ourselves out in the struggle for success. The eminent sociologist Robert Merton calls it the structure of opportunity'. In the understanding of the usefulness of the term elite', there are some common historical variables, which must be looked at in order to appreciate the power organisms at work even in American society, and how from the days of Tho...
"Conservative estimate suggest that 1 out of 100 females is anorexic and 3 out of 100 are bulimic, " as quoted from Dohnt and Tiggemann's study, "Body Image Concerns in Young Girls: The Role of Peers and Media Prior to Adolescence." ...
