The 1997 edition of "Censored" contains 25 articles judged by America's top journalists and citizen advocates as the most important--and most underreported--stories of the year. Also included is the "Censored Deja Vu", censored stories from past years that finally made it into the mainstream press. Illustrations. ...

Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the computer, and receive gratification when they score well. Schools using the Accelerated Reader program have seen a significant increase in reading among their students.<P>These new middle ...

In the months following the September 11 attacks, world leaders began a flurry of attempts to muzzle the press. Some governments prevented journalists from covering anti-U.S. demonstrations or criticizing U.S. policies. Others opportunistically adopted the rhetoric of the "war on terrorism" to justify repressive measures against the media. Still other leaders took a cue from the tactics used by the U.S. military in Afghanistan to keep the press ...

Charting the 5o-year course of "Woman's World, the highly influential South African radio program, this eclectic collection of transcribed interviews is drawn from a commemorative series of programs that follows the progress of women in South Africa. Featured are the most prominent women in South African history talking about everything from public leadership to cooking recipes, all in their own words and at the time when they were most ...

"With the birth of information theory and cybernetics in the late 1940s and early 1950s," writes John Johnston, "a decisive step was taken toward the immense techno-scientific transformation of the world into coded bits of 'information' and machinic assemblages." Beginning with Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, the novels that have reflected this transformation have similarly assembled disparate bits of information and narrative into ...

Introducing media criticism as well as teaching about the media, in inter-disciplinary and 'across the curriculum' teaching, this is the first critical reference book on the important curriculum initiatives taking place in media education. The core of the book is a collection of essays on key concepts from media studies, including 'language', 'narrative', 'institution', 'audience', 'representation', and 'the production process'. Written by ...

Examines the role of media in the prevention and cessation of genocide and other major human rights violations. Sales territory is limited to the U.S. and Canada (Edinburgh University Press). ...

This is a previously published book that first appeared in 1974 as The World is Full of It. It deals with American communications manipulators who influence public opinion, taste, and purchases.
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TV NEWS CORP PROSECUTION: of Scott Peterson, A VIEWER'S VIEW, presents an American's nightmare. It is a time capsule of what one person has ingested from the TV news corps after a person is arrested, jailed, gagged, and kept there for over a year before trial; unable to respond. Chapter Two, where the names of TV hosts, experts, prosecution and defense attorneys, are deleted and placed into their own sections is definitive of the attitude created ...

Mechanisms and tactics used in conditioning the public are extensively revealed and analysed in a manner that is so comprehensive in its approach and in its explanations. ...