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Advertiser Influence On The Media: Censorship And The Media
3448 Words - 13 Pages.... have majority access to the television audience, and most of the book business is controlled by fewer than a dozen companies, with major categories like paperback and trade books dominated by still fewer firms . In this environment the usual democratic expectation for the media -- diversity of ownership and ideas -- has disappeared as the goal of official policy and, worse, as a daily experience of a generation of American readers and viewers.
Narrowing the diversity of news coverage even further is the ever-looming presence of the advertiser or corporate supporter. Advertisers have pressured more than 90 percent of U.S. newspapers to change or kill stories, reported a ....
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Talk Shows And Their Effects On The Audience
1484 Words - 6 Pages.... or statements voiced on the talk show that profoundly affected many lives. In the following paragraphs, I will list the specifics of the two cases, the outcomes of the two cases, their effects on audiences and talk shows today, and their relevance to mass media law.
The first case arose from a taping of The Jenny Jones show on March 6, 1995. Jonathan Schmitz, 26, agreed to appear on a secret admirers segment of The Jenny Jones talk show expecting his admirer to be a woman, not his gay neighbor. When Schmitz found Scott Amedure, a 32-year-old unemployed gay man, telling a television audience about a fantasy that involved Schmitz, some whipped cream, strawberries and champa ....
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Julius Caesar: Brutus
730 Words - 3 Pages.... and trustworthiness to her noble husband. He also
cared very deeply about his wife and he loved her very dearly.
“O ye gods,
render me worthy of this noble wife!”
( II, i, 303-304)
Because of his profound stoicism, Brutus did not seem to show his
graditude much when Portia killed her self. He simply drank wine to get
ride of the pain and told Cassius to never speak of his wife again.
“Lucius a bowl of wine!
I did not think you could have been so angry,
O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.
Of your philosophy you make no use
If you give place to accidental evils.
No man bea ....
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Shakespeare's World
3162 Words - 12 Pages.... name inscribed on such a
towering edifice. "Thou in our wonder and astonishment, hast built thyself a
long-live monument," wrote Milton, in praise of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare is by far and without doubt the most popular and successful
writer of all time. But what of the man himself? Who was William Shakespeare?
The life of William Shakespeare is shrouded in mystery. There is no
record of him receiving an education, buying a book or writing a single letter,
and no original manuscript of a Shakespeare play survives. There is no direct
record of his conversations, and no one in his home town seems to have known
that he was a successful playwright while he was alive. There is ....
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The Simpsons
2330 Words - 9 Pages.... to escape from his troubles in 1977. At that time, Groening was working for the LA Reader, a free weekly newspaper. He began working on Life in Hell, a humorous comic strip consisting of people with rabbit ears. The LA Reader picked up a copy of his comic strip and liked what they saw. Life in Hell gradually became a common comic strip in many free weekly and college newspapers across the country. It even developed a cult status (Varhola, 50).
Life in Hell drew the attention of James L. Brooks, producer of such works as Taxi, The Mary Tyler Show, and Terms of Endearment. Brooks originally wanted Groening to make an animated pilot of Life in Hell. Groening chose not ....
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Romeo And Juliet: Love And Hate
591 Words - 3 Pages.... about
Romeo, the killer of her cousin, she did not realy care about it. But she only
care about was Romeo did not get kill for the murder. Love over power the hate
this time. But can love over power the hate of two families? Many time in the
story the love over turns and sometimes it the other way around. Both of the
family went mad when one of the family member got killed.
The hate between them all started with the parents. Being in the book
of Romeo and Juliet the two families the started fight cause of one the family
made a joke about the other family and it started a huge fight between the two
families. Even the servant help the fight that must have been a fight. ....
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Summary Of Oedipus
931 Words - 4 Pages.... his burden to the end, Laius' murderer will eventually see
the truth. Oedipus delivers a proclamation to pursue the truth. Tiresias,
the blind prophet, comes to convict Oedipus: “I charge you to obey the
decree that you yourself have made. You are the differ of this land.” He
tells of the plague not leaving until the murderer is found. Tiresias,
being a great prophet, knows all but will not tell: “I will speak no
further. Rage if you have a mind to.” Only after Oedipus persists does
the prophet say Oedipus is the murderer: “I say that you are the murderer
that you seek.” Tiresias further states that Oedipus is married to his
mother: “You are living w ....
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The Direct And Indirect Impact Of Rhetoric In The Color Purple
722 Words - 3 Pages.... meet. Celie's complacent and gentle nature leave her
at the mercy of Albert Johnson's more dominant attitude. The rhetoric that she
expresses to him, of innocence and always complying to his orders, forces her to
live a large portion of her life sheltered and overshadowed by Albert, who
continuously beats her into submission. Celie also passes on what she learned
from “Mister” to his son Harpo, the rhetoric of “the importance of a man giving
his wife a good beating.” Albert Johnson does not even realize how important
Celie is to him until she is gone. At that point he returns some of the love
that is shown to him by helping Nettie and her family to return to ....
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