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COMMERCIAL MEDIA - TELEVISION PRINT AND MEDIA HISTORY GENERAL AND MULTIMEDIA MEDIA LITERACY MEDIA AND CHILDREN
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Do not visit this site unless you have at least 2 hours left on your Internet account! "Transparency is based on the idea that all media, politics, and popular culture -- and ultimately all aspects of human personality -- can be opened up to our view and understanding. The site interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and a good deal more. It is divided into two sections. The larger section, Transparency2, includes a number of books and other writings, in progress, that describe the nature of society, culture and personality. It includes (or will include) the following books: The Age of Simulation, which reveals the way fakes, imitations and illusions, as well as invented "worlds" now dominate popular culture. The Landscape of Fiction, which describes the way contemporary forms of fiction, especially movies and television, reveal and disguise the inner reaches of the mind." The site demonstrates how journalists, who should be "... standing outside the cycle of symbolic and physical violence, corruption and manipulated information that makes up the power relations of society...) actually participate and are immersed in this system of untruth. "Like other players in this system, they engage in symbolic violence against reputations; they manipulate information to achieve various ends; they make covert alliances, and offer the public forms of untruth that masquerade as truth. And they do so even as they depict themselves as honest brokers who stand outside the system and expose it flaws to public scrutiny." The author believes that investigative journalism often features character assassination and focuses some of its attention on making people look bad. The author defines and then applies his thesis (a model) to a program presented on Sunday, Sept. 23, 1990, "This Week With David Brinkley," which explored whether the American political establishment is losing credibility with voters. Direct quotes from the program are listed in the left side of the page, and interpretations and identification of the power games and other strategies are defined by the author on the right side of the page. The " encounter immediately became a contest over who would exert power, who would end up looking good and who would be discredited." The author believe that many of the many of the efforts of investigative journalism are"... an effort to hurt people, which is one of the central pathologies of the news media." There is no way I could exit the site without clicking on "Media Insight: TV, Movies, and the Internet " , which provides some very interesting interpretations of what some of the programs (most in "rerun") are really about. Andy Griffith and Comedy's Healers, M*A*S*H, Lucy and Comedy's Lovable Fools, Blue's Clues, Gilligan's Island and Exile.
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A "History" section includes the original series, comments in the forum, updates to the series and reaction from national media. An Epilogue section might be the best place to start.
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A non-profit educational organization devoted to media research and the production of resources to aid educators and others in fostering analytical media literacy. PBS program that aired in May & June 1997, repeats September & November. TOC: Music Videos, Editing Techniques I and II, Rise And Shine, Peter Jennings, Advertising, Selected Media Literacy Resources. |
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Last revised February 10, 2001 |
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