Media & Values (Issues 52-63)

Media and Violence / Part Two:
Searching for Solutions

Issue #63
Fall 1993

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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

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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

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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

Media Literacy Programs Children and Television

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?

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Media &amp; Values (Issues 52-63)

Media & Values (Issues 52-63)