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- 171: Politics: Has The Media Gone Too Far?
- Politics: Has The Media Gone Too Far? The Media, television, newspaper and radio have gone out of their way to make sure you have "up-to-the-second coverage of the latest political information." Is this perhaps too far for anything not directly pertinent to ... few moments of life? These moments include traffic news, air strikes and other warnings, such as weather. My central question is has the media gone too far? I am a firm believer in "Kill your Television." This phrase inspires its' believers to turn off the television and engage in either meaningful activity or perhaps in some other type of entertainment. Kill your television is a good phrase and I suggest most people try killing their television for a week and ...
- 172: Effects of TV on Children
- ... run out of the classroom, and all the way home. After blasting in the house, they run to turn on the TV. Having nothing more exciting to do, they will sit in front of the television until her mom pulls them away for dinner. This is an all to familiar scenario in many American homes today. What many people dont realize are the problems that can develop from young children ... the TV, they are more responsive to learning with it in school, and are more likely to remember it. Many links are showing up in studies between Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and watching too much television in elementary children. This disorder is becoming more common in the classroom, where they have a hard time concentrating. Along with losing creativity and gaining impatience, the child is more apt to behave violently. They ... due to the bad grades he received on his report card. He responded by saying he got the idea form a TV show he watched the night before. These are certainly startling examples of how television violence can affect a child. Is it surprising to many that statistics show television is the number one after school activity for young children? On an average, kids from six to seventeen watch from ...
- 173: What Are You Watching
- ... signed into law the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which dramatically altered the telecommunications industry over the next several years. One of the most controversial sections of the bill was Section 551, titled "Parental Choice in Television Programming," which calls for manufacturers to include a "V-chip" in every new TV set 13 inches or larger. The V-chip is a device that will enable viewers to program their televisions to block ... the system say that it will enable parents to protect their children from viewing violent and explicit material. Opponents say it violates the First Amendment rights of the broadcasters, and enforces government censorship on the television industry. Even though the President has already signed the V-chip legislation into law, it remains at the heart of a heated political battle. The strongest objection raised to the V-chip by its opponents is that it violates the First Amendment Rights of the broadcasters. They claim that the government is imposing a system of censorship that will lead to "blander" and "less dramatic" television (V-Chip: A Matter of Law 21). Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who spearheaded the drive for the V-chip, argues that there is nothing in the legislation that limits the content of programs. ...
- 174: Censorship
- ... really have a place in a society that emphases freedom of speech and the freedom to express oneself, but censorship is an essential and needed part of our growing society, its needed in the television industry, the Internet, and the music industry. Censorship helps to make our world a better place because it creates a better environment for us to live in. Censorship is an important and essential part of television. Without the presence of censorship television would be unsuitable for our younger viewers because censorship helps to filter out the appearances of nudity, real life violence, the use of profanity and other obscene gestures during the youth viewing hours. However, ...
- 175: Golf Ball Industry
- ... strive for technological advance is very prominent in the marketing program at Titleist. They market more than eight different types of balls for different types of golfers. They use many different types of print and television media to gain exposure on their products. Between January and June of 1997, Titleist spent $8.6 million dollars on golf ball advertising(Golf Perspectives). About 42% of the amount was in magazine spending and 57% on television spending. This advertising focuses primarily on ball technology and professional endorsements, which Titleist has Tiger Woods to claim. Spalding, which makes Top-Flite, is the second leading competitor of golf ball sales. Spalding began as ... 518). Between January and June 1997, Spalding spent the most money on advertising for golf ball manufactures at $9.2 million dollars. During this time, 37% was spent on print and 61% was spent on television.(Golf Perspectives). Their marketing program focuses on how their technology will improve golfers games. They make many different types of balls to market to different types of golfers. The Top-Flight Strata is said ...
- 176: Media And Culture
- ... specific issue. 3) And finally, the less we are able to make physical testing the more important becomes the agreement of similar others to validate our beliefs (Turner, 20). To get to a point where television takes its place as an instrument of conviction, we shall add a final hypothesis about influence. According to Deutsch and Gerard, informational influence is influence to accept information from another as evidence about objective reality ... and the ambiguity of the stimulus situation (Turner, 34). We always have a considerable amount of uncertainty about our decisions, and always look for conformation from a friend or an authority. The role of the television at this point is its being the collection of all possible organs of conformation. It is obvious that when we take two newspapers, say The Guardian and The Daily Mirror, we are more intended to ... reached to 750 million, and considering the fact that an average 18 year old American is exposed to approximately 350 000 TV commercials, the picture becomes more dramatic (Coupland, 182). The persuasive affect of the television, therefore follows two steps. First it is the synthesis of video and audio, which means that it involves action and sound as the most realistic forms of communication making it the most popular electronic ...
- 177: The Movie Industry Analysis
- ... able to survive box office failures. Major studios also have an advantage in their ability to maintain distribution networks across the country and in foreign markets. This ensures that their films get to theaters and television screens. Competition- Thousands of screenplays are in developement at any given time but only 450 to 500 actually become motion pictures. Of those, approximately 173 are actually released to the theaters. Even then, the success ... Warner Brothers, Universal, Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox) and approximately two-thirds from the "independents". "Independents" are those companies engaged in the production and/or distribution worldwide in all media of all motion picture and television programs that are not generated by the recognized major studios. It includes those independent productions, even those distributed by a major studio, in which the producer retains a significant ownership interest and is at risk ... these media, owning cable stations, TV networks, and video chains. Even more recently, technology has improved to include such state of the art viewing options as Pay-Per-View, Digital Video Disc (DVD's), satellite television, and Home Theater (surround sound). Interactive Video and computer games are another huge new market that is rapidly expanding. Ancillary markets have proven to be invaluable sources of revenue as in the case of ...
- 178: The Media As An Institution
- ... war live via satellite in their living rooms. Whilst being a strictly controlled coverage, information and live reports were sent globally. Australian reporters sent live broadcasts from Baghdad during American missile attacks whilst Generals gave television conferences to detail the intricacies of the confrontation as it occurred. The most significant change in the mass media has been the increased role of women as consumers of mass media. Whilst magazines such as ... shows the potential to become a large sector of the media. The mass availability of the internet is leading it to becoming an alternate source of information. Most national newspapers and all of the commercial television stations have internet sites. The users of these information sites pay by the presence of advertising. Reasons for Change A study was carried out during an American Presidential campaign in the 1970 s to find ... to become more efficient. Advertising is now arranged to coincide with programs or articles which will be read or watched by certain groups, e.g. toys and sweets are advertised in conjunction with children s television programs whilst advertisements for cars or power tools are often telecast with major sporting events. The most obvious reason for the change of the mass media is the rapid advancement of the technology available ...
- 179: As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia
- ... It Is Called Multimedia As a technology, it is called multimedia. As a revolution, it is the sum of many revolutions wrapped into one: A revolution in communication that combines the audio visual power of television, the publishing power of the printing press, and the interactive power of the computer. Multimedia is the convergence of these different professions, once thought independent of one another, coming together to form a new technological ... interactive multimedia technologies? Well, if the 1980's were a time for media tycoons, the 1990's will be for the self-styled visionaries. These gurus see a dawning digital age in which the humble television will mutate into a two- way medium for a vast amount of information and entertainment. We can expect to see: movies-on-demand, video games, databases, educational programming, home shopping, telephone services, telebanking, teleconferencing, even the complex simulations of virtual reality. This souped-up television will itself be a powerful computer. This, many believe, will be the world's biggest media group, letting consumers tune into anything, anywhere, anytime. The most extraordinary thing about the multimedia boom, is that ...
- 180: The Adults Are Always Right?
- The Adults Are Always Right? "Clean your room! Don't do that! Stop watching that stupid television, don't you have a book to read? Didn't I tell you to clean your room, do you want to be a slob when you grow up? Go to school, don't you have ... Nag Mode, is simple. Every syllable that comes out of the mouth of an adult is heard as nag.' For example: Adults say: "clean your room! ." Kids hear: "nag nag nag!" Adults say: "Stop watching television." Kids hear: "nag nag nag nag nag nag nag." They think of us as being lazy, and irresponsible, selfish and useless. Some adults quiver when they hear how we will one day run this world. What makes us lazy, the fact that we watch an hour of television after a hard day at school, before eating dinner and doing our homework? Why are we irresponsible, because we don't have time to walk the dog due to us studying for our upcoming ...
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