Media and Violence / Part Two: Searching for Solutions

Issue #63 Fall 1993

Exploring the Theme • What’s Wrong with the Ratings? • Taking a Stand: A Postcard Campaign for Nonviolent Media • Like Money in the Bank: Understanding Media's Investment in Violence • What Other Countries Do About Ratings • New Heroes for a New Age • Imagine: A Media of Meaning • No More Blood at Eleven: Alternatives to Crime Reporting Reflection / Action • Challenging the Myths of Media Violence • 20 Ways to Create a Caring Culture - Part I • 20 Ways to Create a Caring Culture - Part II • Something New is Waiting to be Born • The Three Stages of Political Advertising

Media and Violence / Part One: Making the Connection

Issue #62 Spring 1993

 

Exploring the Theme • Beyond Blame: Media Literacy as Violence Prevention • Babylon Revisited: How Violent Myths Resurface Today • Making Connections: Media's Role in our Culture of Violence • Addicted to Violence: Has the American Dream Become a Nighmare? • Decade by Decade: Media Violence Marches On Reflection / Action • The Violence Formula: Analyzing TV, Video and Movies • Measuring ‘Jolts Per Minute’ • Defining Media Violence: It's Not so Easy!

Global Communication: For the Powerful or the People?

Issue #61 Winter 1993

 

Exploring the Theme • All Power to the Conglomerate • Disaster Pornography from Somalia • Guidelines for Process Reporting • Communicating for Justice • Out of Africa: Western Media Stereotypes Shape Images • Native Canadians and the End of Storytelling • Society’s Storyteller: How TV Creates the Myths by which we Live • Media are the World; Media Literacy is the Guidebook Reflection / Action • Listening to the Beat of World Music

Tuning in to Television: News, Views and How to Live with It

Issue #59-60 Summer/Fall 1992

 

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: Wrestling with Television • Sex and Consequences: Reflections of a TV Writer • Home, Home on the Remote: Why Do Men Control "the Clicker"? • Comics and Culture: The Cartoonist as TV Critic • It's a Whole New Ball Game • Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More, But the White Rabbit Does • Muktuk and Mass Media • Society’s Storyteller: How TV Creates the Myths by which we Live • EDITORIAL: Living With Television: Where Do We Go From Here? Reflection / Action • News: Balance Bias with Critical Questions • Snapshots from a TV Album: Tuning in to Viewing Habits

Rethinking Democracy: Citizenship in a Media Age

Issue #58 Spring 1992

 

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: In the Light of the Fires • Brave New World: Rediscovering Democratic Media • Making Politics Work • From Milton to Media: Information Flow in a Free Society • Reaching for the Common Good: Moyers interviews Bellah Reflection / Action • Making Your Voice Heard: Tips for Getting on Talk Radio. • Teaching Media Democracy: Three Days to Insight

Impact of Images: Life and Culture in the Media Age

Issue #57 Winter 1992

 

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: Our image culture and why media literacy matters. • Rise of the Image Culture • The Power of Images: Creating the Myths of Our Time • Television and Consumption • Pictures in the Parlor • How TV Works • 'America’s Wish Book' Sells Dreams • Making a Case for Media Literacy in the Classroom • Storytellers Shape Spiritual Values • Meeting Media in Every Corner of Our Lives • TELEVISION: The Search for Meaning

The Media: In War and Peace

Issue #56 Fall 1991

 

Exploring the Theme • Marketing the Military: Should Soldiering Be Sold Like Soap? • Reporting Conventions Mask Sexual Politics • The Military-News Complex • Why Peace Isn’t Covered • Gulf War: The More We Watched, the Less We Knew • Media Literacy: Strengthening Democracy Reflection / Action • More Diversity Found in Coverage • Media Images Pitch War for Profit • Doublespeak: How Jargon Turns Gore into Glory • Lessons to Learn • Living Room Wars: Vietnam vs. ‘Desert Storm’ • Getting a Handle on Military Advertising • How to Evaluate War Movies

Fatal Attration: The Selling of Addiction

Issue #54-55 Spring/Summer1991

 

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: Just Say Yes to Media Literacy • Our Culture of Addiction • Deadly Persuasion: 7 Myths Alcohol Advertisers Want You to Believe • The Selling of Addiction to Women • Women's Magazines Won't Bite the Hands That Feed Them • Cancer is an Equal Opportunity Disease • Alcohol and Television: And Now for Some Mixed Messages Exploring the Theme • Alcohol in Prime Time: 10 Guidelines for Writers

Children and Television: Growing Up in a Media World

Issue #52-53 Fall 1990 / Winter 1991

 

Exploring the Theme • STARTING POINT: It all begins at home. • Five Important Ideas To Teach Your Kids About TV • Altered States: How Television Changes Childhood • Teach Kids to Make TV! • From Savers to Spenders: How Children Became a Consumer Market • Guidelines for Quality Children's Television • Wired Bedrooms: Kids' Media Choices Made Behind Closed Doors • When Kids are Watching: Confessions of a SitCom Producer Reflection / Action • Bridging the Gap: Sharing Your Family's Life Stories • Trauma on the News: Should Children Watch?