mass media

Includes a wide range of opinions surrounding negative campaigning.

Looks at how the use of violence in television, movies, and video games is affecting children; examines scientific research which links graphic imagery and the escalating incidence of youth violence; and discusses what parents can do to keep their children safe.

Provides advice and guidance for gathering and interpreting information to stay better informed.

Explains the importance of being well informed as a community leader, and provides advice on understanding mass media and journalism, recognizing reliable and unreliable sources, and using libraries, the Internet, and other resources.

Explains how to incorporate media education into the secondary classroom, and includes various tools and vignettes.

Explores current issues, such as feminism, gun control, class conflict, foreign policy, and net neutrality, from the perspectives of the creators and co-hosts of an independent, listener-supported radio show called "Citizen Radio.".

Gives tips and tricks to help readers evaluate multimedia content used to support literature and informational text using expert reader models and providing guided practice.

The former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine revisits the Gary Hart affair and looks at how it changed forever the intersection of American media and politics. In 1987, Gary Hart--articulate, dashing, refreshingly progressive--seemed a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination for president and led George H.W. Bush comfortably in the polls. And then: rumors of marital infidelity, an indelible photo of Hart and a model snapped near a fatefully named yacht (Monkey Business), and it all came crashing down in a blaze of flashbulbs, the birth of 24-hour news cycles, tabloid speculation, and late-night farce. Matt Bai shows how the Hart affair marked a crucial turning point in the ethos of political media--and, by extension, politics itself--when candidates' 'character' began to draw more fixation than their political experience. Bai makes the compelling case that this was the moment when the paradigm shifted--private lives became public, news became entertainment, and politics became the stuff of Page Six.

Collects the speeches of television journalist Bill Moyers on topics such as democracy, freedom, history, the media, politics, and religion.

CBS News senior European correspondent Tom Fenton reveals how the news media has abandoned their responsibility to the American people in favor of serving their corporate sponsors, endangering Americans and the future of the media.