Broadcast News and Print News
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This 6 page paper considers the difference between broadcast news, including television and radio, and print news, and defines some of the underlying reasons why the concepts presented in these different forms shifts. This paper provides a comparison of stories presented in both film and the broadcast news as a means of supporting the thesis presented. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: MHMedTV.wps

Can the Reporting of Elections Lessen Symbolic Violence?
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This 3 page paper looks at the concept of symbolic violence as defined by Pierre Bourdieu and how this is reflected in the press and the way in which reporters may perpetuate or help to reduce the levels of symbolic violence. The bibliography cites 1 source.
Filename: TEsymbviol.rtf

Cell Phones and Cancer: Examining Sources of Information
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A 6 page paper assessing 4 popular press reports and 4 scholarly source articles discussing the issue of whether cell phone radiation causes or contributes to the development of brain cancer. All of the articles reject the suspicion, but the scholarly sources are more circumspect in arriving at the negative conclusion. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: KScomCellCan.rtf

CENSORSHIP IN MYANMAR (BURMA): AN OVERVIEW
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This 10-page paper examines media censorship in Myanmar. Topics include types of media censorship and how the Internet is starting to break through it. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: MTburmacen.rtf

Censorship: Necessary and Impossible
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A 6 page paper which examines how some form of censorship is necessary to protect people, but also how censorship is impossible at the same time. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAcnim.rtf

Changes in the Modern Mass Media and Whether or Not Media Communication has Improved
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This 9 page report discusses the modern media and the ways in which it plays an important and pervasive role in the lives of most people. Technology has allowed for commercial information services to proliferate so wildly to the point of becoming a common part of mainstream consciousness. Not surprisingly, in the midst of the technological revolution, those who control and maintain the mass media have taken full advantage of the new channels of communication available to them. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: BWchange.wps

Changing Perspectives in the News
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the news headlines on four different days: February 3, 1898, January 11, 1934, March 22, 1961, and August 7, 1981. This paper integrates a view of two different issues as they are outlined in the news on these days and considers the context and changing views over time. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: MHNewsDa.rtf