... collection of related audio recordings, released together to the public, usually commercially. The term record album  originated from the fact that 78 RPM  Phonograph disc records  were kept together in a book resembling a photo album. The first collection of records to be called an "album" was Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite," release in April 1909 as a four-disc set by Odeon records.[9][ ... because journalists often record important events, producing news articles on short deadlines. While under pressure to be first with their stories,  news media organizations usually e...

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... later picked up by a liberal, European-owned Manhattan firm. She embarks on a triumphant promotional tour through the studios and newsrooms of the same "liberal media- establishment excoriated in that book. She continues to lament the squelching of innocent conservatives by scheming liberals. The mainstream newspapers that sit atop Coulter's fictional leftist "propaganda machine- all treated Slander quite gently. The ... Buckley Jr., scarcely pretends to be anything more than an instrument of the Republican Party's conservative leadership. (His father was the coauthor, with Buckley, of M...

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... own rhetoric about terrorist acts. It was said by a man named Picard that reporters can choose from four different traditions of reporting to relate terrorist events. Information tradition, which is reports are expected to be factual and reliably documented. Sensationalist tradition, coverage includes emotions, alarm, threat, anger, and fear. Feature stories, the focus is on individual as heroes, villains, victims, and ... in Oklahoma City in which 168 people were killed. He was convicted in 1997 of what was then considered the single worst terrorist act in U.S. history. Also another pe...

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... the 1920s and 1930s. In fact, Herman and Chomsky's title is a variation of the term "manufacture of consent" (158) coined by Lippmann in his influential book Public Opinion. To support their arguments, Herman and Chomsky first sketch out a "propaganda model" that describes the political and economic (market) forces that largely, though ... the tone of the stories and dissected the facts given greater, or lesser, emphasis. For example, the New York Times devoted 1,183 column inches to reports about the murder of one dissident Polish priest at the hands of the Soviet-backed Polish police. I...

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... with a supervisor's approval. The department was already known for its rigid stance on releasing information. In 2004, the department also required reporters to file a Public Records Request before reviewing police reports. Policies as strict as the one seen in San Francisco are becoming a thing of the past. Departments are beginning to understand that a positive relationship with the media can result in ... Police Officer, I can kind of see how the media can play in a role in the way we police. Always looking over our shoulders and having to do everything by the book every time. Someti...

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