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    The reading for this week declared accurate data of how the media (newspapers articles and television stations) can control and manipulate salience and how it impacts the general public on immigration as a whole. I did appreciate the article speaking of the reasons why the media uses only certain data or stories to release. The media has studied Americans and knows what will encourage them to watch the news or read their articles. The news media is the gatekeeper to what the public hears…

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    (Children and TV) There were some good effects that television brought to children. Programmers had advanced TV shows that could positively influenced children. Children and their parents would watch cartoons together when they went to the department stores every Saturday. Children found their new friends and their role models by characters in TV shows. (Purdy) "The Mickey Mouse Club” taught children meaningful moral lessons and promoted their self-esteem by providing them with positive role…

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    XI, The black shoes: Bitterfield 1935. A mother is peeling potatoes while the daughter is doing her homework in a working-class flat. The daughter ask the mother if she could have two pfennings for the week. This way she can make the trip to the country because her teacher said Hitler wants the town people to get closer with the farmers. The mother does not have the money but said she will try. The daughter starts to help her peel potatoes when she ask her if she has to wear the old black shoes…

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    Problems in the world are presented through television. Before the invention of newspapers and other media, information was spread through the word of mouth and later in written forms. When television was invented, communication became visible and information was being spread instantaneously. However, electronic media is reshaping the culture in which we live today by televising serious issues into a form of entertainment. Neil Postman, the author of his 1985 Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public…

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    Doordarshan with a hope of applying my technical knowledge in one of the largest broadcasting organisation. I was called for an interview as application influx was very high in this organisation and retention was less. I successfully cleared my technical interview rounds and finally started trainee tenure on 13.06.2011. Research & Analysis about company…

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    The person who wrote the passage “Streams of Content: Limited Attention” is named Danah Boyd. This passage was published in 2010. Boyd tries to inform the modern person by conveying a message on how people would receive information and how people use and react to it. The author uses a logical appeal, which then turns into a more ethical appeal and this makes Boyd seem much more credible. Boyd begins with stating that people should not “be a passive consumer of information” (558-559). She also…

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    Idiot Box Research Paper

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    Information Box or Idiot Box How television was used, and its purpose for the world? Having probably surpassed the hopes and dreams of its creators, the television has made a huge impact on the lives of billions of people. The “boob tube” or “idiot box” was initially used to help advertisers sell their products; however, it has become a means of rapidly informing the world of current events and other forms of entertainment. Widespread panic that took place in 2009 as the June 12th switch from…

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    Candid Camera Essay

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    (1948-1960) In the tracing of the social and historical connections of the genre many authors consider “Candid Camera” as the first reality show. Emerging as a Radio show , in 1948 this show gets its TV version followed by great popularity. The show illustrates situations in which ordinary people are found in unordinary situations with comic outcomes (E.g. Woman asks help for her car, when passersby learns that the car has no engine). The hidden cameras from many angles follow the actions, and…

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    Cja 201 Assignment

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    LICA 201: WORK PLACEMENT WHAT IS THE ROLE OF LOCAL RADIO? HOW DOES A LOCAL RADIO SEGMENT THEIR AUDIENCE? INTRODUCTION Until the 1970s the BBC had a legal monopoly on radio broadcasting and Independent Local Radio in the United Kingdom did not exist in any form apart from pirate radio stations. However, that changed with the election of Edward Heath’s government followed by the introduction of commercial radio (Reynolds, 2007). I had the opportunity to work in the local commercial radio station…

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    Essay On Rural America

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    In the very recent past rural, agricultural America felt like it was an altogether a different country. Even as recent as the 1980’s many areas that are distant from the cities did not have even the most basic inventions of the 20th century American culture, such as the TV networks, access to cable, satellite and internet. If you were to drive through these areas a generation ago, it would feel like a trip to different nation in a different time. People living in these areas were exposed to…

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