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The Media


             this topic was The National Television Violence Study; a three-year research project funded by the .
             National Cable Television Association issued in 1996. The study involved efforts from media scholars .
             from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill among other schools. The study found that violence .
             is often presented in ways that could harm viewers. Perpetrators go unpunished in 73% of all violent .
             scenes. This should be of great concern because when violence is presented without punishment, and .
             oftentimes with rewards, viewers are more likely to learn that violence is successful. In addition to the .
             perpetrators going unpunished, in 47% of violent scenes no harm is actually shown to the victim. In 58% .
             of scenes no pain is shown. In only 16% of programs that portray violence the long-term negative .
             affects such as psychological, financial, and emotional harm are shown. There are programs that show .
             violence but emphasize an anti-violence theme by condemning the violence. Sadly these are a rarity, .
             only accounting for 4% of all the violent programs on television. (Media Violence, 1999) Although it's .
             not likely for people to be lured into a life of violence by seeing a body on TV or a barroom fight, the .
             context of the violence is important. When violence seems justified it is more likely to be imitated, and .
             look at how much of the violence we see on television seems justified and for a good cause. Many .
             programs draw viewers in and make them "see the side" of the criminal. This can have negative affects .
             because research shows that the more we identify and empathize with a character the more likely we .
             are to imitate the character. .
             Not all movies get you to empathize with the bad guy but they often portray .
             him as a powerful and very often rich. Imitating people who are powerful gives us the illusion of .
             borrowing some of their power. Many popular movies carry messages that violence is the "manly" .


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... Linda Fairstein, a crime writer, questions Diallo's motives were agreeing to interviews during this stage of the investigation. "As a prosecutor, the rule is you want your witness to speak in the courtroom, and not to the media," she said. "Interviews raise problems for prosecutors - even if the story is consistent, each interview gives the defense more possible details to cross examine her with. A mistake or a slip of ... the tongue becomes 20 minutes of cross examination in a courtroom" (Trevelyan). Bradley Simon, a Manhattan criminal defense attorney and ... ). Strauss-Kahn faces se...

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2. The Truth vs. the Fabrication: Town Hall Debates, Staging, and the Effect on Healthcare Reform.

... come to learn and to make their minds up about healthcare reform. In fact, it is unlikely that there are "plants" in every town hall. Obviously the news media can't and had no interest in attending every event. The professional town hall rabble rousers are placed in town halls hosted by high profile officials and officials in hotly contested congressional districts. By manipulating ... even full-fledged argument about totalitarian government deciding who lives and who dies on the basis of how well they fit into the collective. Once the anti-healthcare reform lobby manages to disrupt a f...

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3. How Did the Internet and New Media Affect the 2008 Presidential Elections

The 2008 American presidential election was unlike any other, in a number of ways. There was the possibility of a female vice-president pitted against the possibility of an African-American president - both potential history-making moments. Voting turnouts broke some records, and with the election of Senator Barack Obama, the United States allowed a new era of American politics to be ushered in. And the way it all happened was revolutionary, too. The Internet has, it seems, forever changed the way Americans experience their political lives. The Internet has infiltrated our everyday lives in co...

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4. NBC Omits Words from the Pledge of Allegiance

... coverage on NBC Sunday, the network aired a controversial, patriotic montage that showed children saying the Pledge of Allegiance. To the disgust of many of the viewers, NBC edited the words "under God" and "indivisible" in the first version and omitted "one nation" as well in the second version. Within hours, social media outlets were flooded with outraged viewers protesting ... against NBC's omission. NBC's announcer publicly apologized on-air just three hours after the montage aired, highlighting the ... large number of protests they received online. The announcer said the "feature ...

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5. The CDC Takes Action Against the MRSA Skin Infection

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6. The Correctness of Al Gore's Energy Proposal

In private circles and in the media, Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," was the subject of many jokes, parodies, and even some serious discussion. In Great Britain, in October of 2007, a London High Court judge in an uncommon ruling on what secondary school children could be shown in the classroom determined there were nine key errors in scientific fact. Mr. Justice Burton was quoted ... as saying that some of these points he determined as untrue had been "in the context of alarmism and exaggeration," according to The Times Online Edition of October 11, 2007. However, a look at recent ...

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7. iPhone: The Technology Superstar

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9. The Lowdown on Rising Gas Prices

... one pocket. There is a chain of groups that each contributes to the price of the product, and they all get their piece of the pie. Despite what the media may want us to think, it is not solely the price of crude oil that determines the price of gas. It doesn't matter how high gas prices soar; ... each body with their fingers in the pot needs to be paid. By way of ... produced (if any) in that region, prices almost doubled. Similarly, when countries like India have a boost in their demand for crude, the supply decreases and prices rise. The rise in gas prices aren't always linked to sup...

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