News, it's what we all watch on a daily basis. It's the trusted source of information no matter what station we"re watching. It's the power plant of knowledge that is supposed to be correct all the time. However, the question that starts to ... one purpose, to entertain viewers in an attempt to keep their ratings up. Higher ratings mean more viewers which means more advertisers want to come to their station and pay large sums of money to use just a fraction of the air time allotted to show off the product they try to sell. The following ... %, but the coverage of the news went up 600%." Stat...

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... shambles, as well as the whole country of Russia, the former USSR has not produced much useful technology lately. With a huge space station in the making, Russia is the only country that has not made the necessary parts for its completion, due to costly maintenance of their old space ... station, Mir, on which Russia and America have worked together on conducting experiments in the years after the USSR's break-up. With Mir's retirement ... , Russia now has the time and the resources to complete their part of the International Space Station which will accelerate space exploration. Americ...

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... In 1970, the issue of indecency in radio cropped up In re WUHY-FM Eastern Education radio 24 FCC 2d 48. In this case a Philadelphia station aired a discussion with Jerry Garcia, headman for rock group, The Grateful Dead. In the interview Garcia spoke about a many number of topics and used ... presented itself again, in the case of FCC v. Pacifica Foundation 438 U.S. 726 (1978). On Tuesday, October 30, 1973 at two pm, a radio station of respondent Pacifica Foundation aired Comedian George Carlin's 12-minute satiric "Filthy Words" monologue. The piece poked fun at the 7 words that are not...

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... one who becomes involved in government. This individual is now the Senator. The government has their own communication system. This includes a television station that is strictly government related. This is where all information can be obtained. No news and/or media of any other sort are ... able to release any information about government because they tend to sometimes give misleading information. This government station allows candidates to display information about themselves and what they plan to do in office if they become elected. No negativity is allowed ... . They are not allowed...

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... direction of the Pearl Harbor entrance. Crew on board sank the sub with gunfire and depth charges and sent radioed information to headquarters. Then later at 7 a.m. at Opana Mobile Radar Station several different signals were picked up. The signals indicate that a large flight of planes were approaching from the north. Officials thought it to be either an expected group of B-17s ... at 7:55 the general alarm sounded. He heard yelling, "Man your battle stations! Japanese planes attacking! Break out ammunition! This is no drill! " He mentioned he dashed to his battle station and was dropp...

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... bombing of airfields. Twenty-seven Kates, each loaded with a 550 pound bomb were to be sent to Hickam Field, eighteen more to Ford Island and nine to Kanoehe Naval Air Station. Eighty Vals would then dive-bomb undamaged ships. Thirty-six Zero's also accompanied on the second wave to protect the bombers. In all, Yamamoto believed there were two main components ... no where near ready or prepared for this type of battle forced upon them. The Japanese targets, Wheeler Field, Ford Island, Hickam Field, Wheeler Field, Kaneohe Naval Air Station, Ewa Marine Corps Air Station and Bellows Field ...

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... is passed in Texas in September 1999. "A billboard in Houston Texas proclaims in bold red lettering, Don't Abandon Your Baby! Take your child to an emergency medical technician at a fire station or hospital. SAVE YOUR BABY! The billboard and its message reflect a growing trend in this country, calling for laws that make it possible for birth parents to abandon an infant ... : • Relinquishing parent not considered to have abandoned or endangered the child. Who can accept a relinquished baby? • Emergency medical services provider (hospital that offers emergency services); • Police St...

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... different physically demanding situations that could cost a life as well as your own. Instead of working a few hours and going home, the job has you eating and sleeping at the station in case of emergency. The job may last from 24 hours to 56 hours as well as working in holidays. A fire could start at any time at any day. Also ... exposed to flames, toxic gas, smoke, heat, stress and also high levels of noise than other jobs. Finally, there are several advancements that a firefighter can take while working in the station. Before they end up getting promoted they need to pass a written e...

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... amount of uniformed, and sometimes heavily armed forces to the streets (Bornstein, 2005). The MTA has also been working with the NYPD by putting up cameras at Grand Central Station, Penn Station, and Times Square. They have put up nearly 3,700 security cameras online and operational in the subways and additional cameras will be placed in the upcoming years. The cameras are ... ...

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... water reactors (BWR) and pressurized water reactors (PWR), an example of each may be found right here in south Louisiana. River Bend generating station located outside of Baton Rouge in St. Francisville is a BWR, and Waterford 3 generating station is a PWR located outside of New Orleans in Killona. As an interesting side note, due to the changes in homeland security following the terrorist ... ...

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... graduation from the naval academy on July 7th, 1946. After graduation from the Naval Academy Jimmy Carter was commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy. His first duty station was in Norfolk, Virginia. He served there for 2 years on the USS Wyoming and the USS Mississippi. During Jimmy's time at his first duty ... station in Norfolk, his wife gave birth to their first son, John William Carter. He was born on July 3rd, 1947 at the Naval Hospital. Raising their first child together was ... ...

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... , it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to ... which tells us the ideas behind the Declaration, people have certain rights that cannot be ignored. Our natural rights, which we are born with, make us equals, no matter what station you have in life, we should all be treated the sam...

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... are assured that his show will conform to acceptable standards of responsible broadcasting," said John Hogan, president and CEO of Clear Channel Radio. Stern replied that he had tripled the station's revenues and that New York advertisers paid $15,000 per minute. That figure alone shows how much revenue a talk show such as Howard Stern can help US economy and if ... and their kids grow up fine. Howard Stern is a radio show that is not out there in front of your nose. To listen to it you have to switch the station. If you don't believe in what he says or don't like what he talks about th...

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... down town to the 17th precinct and charged with "disorderly conduct". After being held for several hours, Mr. Robbins was released. (DeSantis, 1994 p. 4) On his way out of the police station Mr. Robbins asked for the officer's name that had arrested him. The officer behind the desk told him to get out of the ... station or he was "really going to get it". So the police threatened Mr. Robbins for a second time. On March 23rd criminal court quickly dismissed the charge against Robbins. Robbins also ... ...

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... . The battle for the right to get this information is at a premium. The morning news report is soon becoming one of the most watched newscasts of the day. Nearly every station in Pittsburgh area has a morning news program, and they are all competing now for the business of the customer. With the amount of people leaving for work early, and arriving ... competing for this new market have taken in viewer feedback. Viewers (consumers) want to see more vital news, more weather updates, and fewer commercials in the programs, demands that every station has recently addressed. These stations ha...

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... could not. She continued walking with death beside her until she fainted. When she woke she was in a truck driven by rescuers headed toward ChungKing. She went to her husband's station only to learn that he had been killed two weeks earlier. She become delirious and mad. Hospitalized, she met her future husband Canning Woo. They would later movie to the ... great pain. She passed out. A passing truck found her body on the road and saved her. Ironically the truck was going to ChungKing. Once there, Suyuan went to her husband's station only to learn that he had been killed two weeks befor...

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... school student makes a decision to enlists in the US Marine Corp right out of school and takes a flight to boot camp. I came home and went to the Marine Corp recruiting station across the street from the oldest high school in Arlington; a red brick building that has been the center of Arlington for over 100 years. I walked and the ... Station and saw a bleach blonde Marine, the shortest Marine I have ever seen, but his build was bulky covered with bright colored tattoos on each humongous arm. His name was Sgt. Lipps ... ...

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... came from the famous "grassy knoll." About an hour later, two Dallas policemen were shot dead, the suspect: Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was caught and taken to the Dallas police station for questioning. He was brought up through the basement where a gunman named Jack Ruby shot Oswald dead. Three shots fired! President Kennedy has been shot! Dealey Plaza was in frenzy ... that struck him in the neck and the head. The gunman was identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, who claimed he was just a patsy. He was taken to the Dallas police station, where he was shot by Jack Ruby and died shortly after. ...

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... China wants to do is put a man on the moon by 2010, but first they want to put a robotic explorer there in 2008. China also would like to build a space station on the moon. The space program also has a different objective and that is defense, China is planning missile satellites that will be able to break through U.S. defenses (Forney 1-2). People who ... , Texas. Though China argues that it is the 3rd space power, behind US. and Russia, it was not allowed to join the 16 nations already involved in the International Space Station (Kahn 2). One of China's largest problems would have to be...

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... signed in July 1992, and a political talks began on August 10, 1992 in Arusha. Meanwhile the Hutu extremists had created radio station which was aimed at intimidating the Tutsi, and advised the listeners to be aware of the Tutsi. A counterpart T.V station also terrorized the Tutsi as it showed the small scale massacres that were been carried out on the Tutsis population. On ... ...

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... of the time as well. The conditions were so horrible that many considered wounding themselves just to be able to get off the front line and go to an aid station. Sergeant Bruce Egger of the 26th Infantry divisions remembered how "one private in [his] platoon shot himself in the foot and there was no question of accident. . . It was three ... miles by trail to the aid station. The two medics who went with him made him walk all the way ¾there was no free ride for those with self-inflicted wounds. During those long nights, it was ... ...

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... debate as to what Canadians would view on television was partial government ownership. With partial government ownership, Americanization of Canada's media could be controlled. There was to be a CBC owned station and production centre in each of the main regions and with private stations elsewhere. All of the private stations were to be CBC affiliates. With the new government policies and ... no matter what, Canadians would find a way to access American programming. Today, American influence on Canadians through radio and television has become even more apparent. Every television channe...

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... life is the most important item in any project, not political pressure, or scheduling problems, or finger pointing. The case of the TV Antenna Tower Collapse, a television station was videotaping a crew raising the station's new television antenna tower. Unfortunately, on the day of videotaping, something went wrong with the lifting rig, and while the antenna was being hoisted the bolts failed. The ... ...

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... your income tax. It is said that some 250 phone calls either supporting of Gordon in some aspect, or pledging to never file another tax return, came into the radio station within the next couple days. After this, the IRS came down on Gordon like a ton of bricks. A case was quickly assembled against him and on April 14, 1977, Gordon was ... roadblock consisting of an ambulance and a fire truck. The Marshal had clearly made it known that he had not come to arrest, but to murder. Yorie had drove the family station wagon, along with his mother in the passenger seat and Scott in the backseat...

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... into or up to this great responsibility, that there has to be something to fall back on. Unfortunately, that fall back seems to lead back to station programming. I guess it is now or never that station programming needs to step up and think about what their programming is, and who will be watching. I am enrolled in a class called Culture, Race, and Media ... ...

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