Media and the Earth: Challenging the Consumer Culture

Issue #51 Summer 1990

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: Catch the Real Earth Day Fever • Where Does it Come From? Where Does it Go? • Envrionment News: No More Business as Usual • How We Connect with the Earth • CHILDREN: Finding Green Lessons in Fast Food Reflection / Action • Brands R Us: How Advertising Works • MINORITIES: Ecological Reporters Awaken to Ethnicity

News for the '90s: A Question of Values

Issue #50 Spring 1990

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: Is the News Selling You Short? • Re-Touching Reality: Can Pictures Lie? • A Short History of News • Whatever Happened to the News? • The Birth of the Sound Bite • Can a Woman Deliver the News? • Study Debunks Myths About Newspaper Religion Beat Reflection / Action • News: Balance Bias with Critical Questions • News: Beyond the Myth of Objectivity • CHILDREN: Parents Can Help Defuse Bad News

Gender in the Media / Part Two: Redesigning Women

Issue #49 Winter 1990

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: Discover the many faces of women in media. • Beauty...and the Beast of Advertising • Real Issues in a Reel World • Worlds Apart: Women, Men and Technology • Ads Pose Dilemma for Black Women • GLOBAL: War Against Media Sexism is Global • When Women Talk to Women, HerStory is Finally Told • No News Is Women's News Reflection / Action • PASTORING: Eve's Legacy: Burden of Blame • How to Evaluate Media Images of Women • CHILDREN: Questions Help Challenge False Images • Sexist Advertisements: How to see through the soft sell • How to Conduct a Gender Survey of Your Local Newspaper

Gender in the Media / Part One: Men, Myth and Media

Issue #48 Fall 1989

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: Real Men Don’t Fall for Media Myths • Home, Home on the Remote: Why Do Men Control "the Clicker"? • Dads Through the Decades: Thirty Years of TV Fathers • Gendered Technology • YOUTH: Media Models Say Muscles Make Men • CHILDREN: Helping Children Challenge Male Stereotypes • Images of Men in Advertising • Study Shows White Male Experts Dominate News Reflection / Action • How do Media Images of Men Affect Our Lives? • PASTORING: What Gender is God? • Boys Toys: What Does Technology Cost?

Media and Money: How the Bottom Line Affects What We See and Hear

Issue #47 Summer 1989

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: From Wall Street to Your Street • The Culture of Capitalism • The Empire Strikes: Mergers in the Media World • When I Grow Up: Children and the Work-World of Television Reflection / Action • CHILDREN: Economic Lessons for Young Viewers • Get Down to Business News • CHILDREN: Just Say ‘No’ To Garfield • Can TV Characters Pay Their Bills?

The Birds, the Bees.and Broadcasting: What Media Teach Our Kids about Sex

Issue #46 Spring 1989

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: Turning the tables on TV sex • Sex on TV: Do All Kids See the Same Show? • Sex and Consequences: Reflections of a TV Writer • Who's in the Dollhouse? Research reveals surprising role models Reflection / Action • Tuning in to TV Sex: How to Use Media to Dialogue with your Children • Pastoring: Healthy Sexual Ethic Starts With Adults • MINORITIES: Hollywood Sour on Interracial Romance

Coming of Age: Media and the Mature Audience

Issue #45 Winter 1989

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: It's not the same old story. • Lifeline or Leisure? • Video Visits Help Families Say 'I Love You' • Studies Analyze Elderly Use of Television • Producer's Lament: Bottom Line Still Tops • How does Hollywood Handle Ageism? • Going for the Gold: The Golden Girls are a Hit! • Attacking Ageism in Advertising • TVs Dark Vision Can Be Frightening to Elders Reflection / Action • How to Watch Television with Your Grandchildren • CHILDREN: Media Help Fill Grandparent Gap • PASTORING: Senior Productions Raise Self-Esteem • ADVOCACY: TV Still Sidesteps Real Life Struggles • FAMILY: Oral Histories Harvest Family Heritage

Elections: Image or Issues?

Issue #44 Summer/Fall 1988

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: Whatever Happened to Potholders? • One Journalist's View: Informed Voters Must Reach Beyond Images • Power Politics: Reporting the Real Issues • Democracy Requires Access to Media Alternatives • Tony Schwartz: The Man Who Invented Political Spots • Press Conferences: Linking People With Their President Reflection / Action • CHILDREN: TV Tool Teaches Election Basics • YOUTH: Training Creates Media Wise Voters • PASTORING: Faith Can Counter Campaign Cynicism • MINORITIES: TV Images Reflect Changing America • FAMILY: Questions to Analyze Political Media • How to Decode Political Images • Bill Moyers on Political Ads • The Selling of the President: 1984

Ethnic Diversity: Challenging the Media

Issue #43 Spring 1988

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: We all come from somewhere • Covering Conflict: How the News Media Handles Ethnic Controversy • A Century of Abuse: Ethnic Images on Screen • Does TV Shape Ethnic Images? Reflection / Action • Hollywood’s Arab: Still Stuck in the Desert • PASTORING: Stereotypes Back? It's No Joke • FAMILY: 'Tossed Salad' Culture Honors Diversity

Home Video: The Revolution is Choice

Issue #42 Winter 1988

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: It was bound to happen. • Video is Here to Stay • Undercutting “Slashers”: Evaluating Video Violence • China's Challenge: Modernize, not Westernize Reflection / Action • The VCR: Questions for Family Reflection