Television Delivers People, 1974 TRANSCRIPT: The Product of Television, Commercial Television, is the Audience. Television delivers people to an advertiser. There is no such thing as mass media in the United States except for television. Mass media means that a medium can deliver masses of people. Commercial television delivers 20 million people a minute. In [...]
Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it. – Thomas Jefferson “Even in one of the places where violence is worst … El Diario was still doing a lot of good reporting on crime,” said Carlos Lauria, a CPJ senior coordinator. “The [...]
Journalism Warning Labels [via Valentina Tanni] Must say I’m jealous of Tom Scott’s journalism warning labels – they may not be useful (it’d take a prohibitively great deal of time to vet the daily newspaper and apply stickers for an effective information campaign) but perhaps a few choice applications would remind readers to think critically [...]
“New York is already a target for terrorists – we announce that every day and talk about it every day. To add something unnecessary to that makes no sense, and the president has made, I believe, an irresponsible decision.” – Giuliani: 9/11 Trials in NYC Will Lead to More TerrorismNewsMax.com2009-11-13 … and warning people daily [...]
A veteran Seattle police officer was fatally shot Saturday night as he and a rookie officer sat in their patrol car in the Central District. The officer who was killed was identified as Tim Brenton, 39, a nine-year veteran of the Seattle Police Dept. . . . “This is an assassination and every resource is [...]
Use soap bubbles to distract babies and younger children. Parents can hold a plastic bubble-making wand in front of their child’s mouth and let them “blow away the hurt.” For crying babies, making a bubble will give them something to focus on besides the pain. Try relaxation exercises. Tell older kids and teens to breathe [...]
Investigators are examining the possibility of other conspirators, “including the possibility that even some of the media outlets may have had some knowledge about this,” Alderden said. Documents show that a media outlet has agreed to pay money to the Heenes with regards to the balloon incident, Alderden said. He didn’t name the media outlet, [...]
Because, whether you know it or not, you can’t handle the truth. The death of Lance Corporal Joshua M. Bernard was one of 4,257 (and counting) US casualties in Iraq. The difference between his and the 4,256 before it: a picture taken by an Associated Press photographer moments after he sustained the mortal wound. The [...]
Ah, the casual, comfortable flip-flop: A symbol of summertime, an emblem of relaxation – and a harbinger of death? OK, well, that may be overstating it a little bit – but not by too terribly much, health experts say. . . . Most disturbing of all, the flip-flops provided shelter to the potentially lethal germ [...]
Rupert Murdoch‘s credible and upstanding News Corporation (proud owner of such trustworthy outlets as Fox News) seems to have a penchant for “digging deep” to get scandalously-entertaining information: According to one source with direct knowledge of the Scotland Yard evidence, News of the World journalists were systematically using private investigators who would break the law [...]
