Commentaries

Media analysis and criticism from a former TV news anchor, reporter and meteorologist. Also includes links to media research groups and organizations committed to creating a more democratic, citzen-based media environment.

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Welcome to the Web site of Chris Shumway! I am the Director of University Television at in Columbus, Ohio. I'm also an Instructor in the Department of Communication. I teach courses in Video Production, Broadcast Announcing, Oral Communication, and Mass Media. More information about our
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2. Ben Bagdikian Interview

Interview with media analyst about effect of corporate media ownership, using tobacco issue as example. From PBS Frontline.

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Media critic and former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley. He played a role in obtaining and publishing portions of The Pentagon Papers and is the author of The Media Monopoly . Q: WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHEN YOU SPEAK OF THE MEDIA MONOPOLY? Bagdikian: Well
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3. Tabloids, Talk Radio, and the Future of News

Technology's Impact on Journalism by Annenberg Senior Fellow Ellen Hume

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Media Analyst Ellen Hume comments on journalism ethics, media and democracy, Internet journalism, future of news, leadership; offering published articles, quotes, inspiration, links for journalists and students. Includes professional profile and biographical information.
Tabloids, Talk Radio and the Future of News Tabloids, Talk Radio, and the Future of News Technology's Impact on Journalism by Annenberg Senior Fellow open a printable version of this article . (It is a large file and will take a minute to download.) Ellen Hume is an Annenberg Senior Fellow.

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4. Consent, American Style

Analysis and commentary by Steve Mizrach about manipulation of the public through the media. Based on views of Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, and Ben Bagdikian.

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Many cultural critics, such as Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, and Ben Bagdikian, have pointed out that in order for American power to carry out the atrocities it has perpetrated abroad, it needs to "manufacture" the consent of the American people. That is because America must at one
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5. Making Media Democratic

Article that critcizes the effect of commercial corporate media on society, and that calls for reform that brings diversity of ownership and access. By Robert McChesney from The Boston Review.

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An article by Robert W. McChesney from Boston Review
system is spinning out of control in a hyper-commercialized frenzy. Fewer than ten transnational media conglomerates dominate much of our media; fewer than two dozen account for the overwhelming majority of our newspapers, magazines, films, television, radio, and books. With every aspect of our

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6. OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today

Running commentary about current events. The work of James Taranto and Elizabeth Crowley of the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

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By James Taranto The New York Times relaxes taboos about Nazi Germany. Friday 4:22 p.m. ET
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7. Bloodbath in the District of Columbia

An essay from UnquietMind.com about the destructiveness of the Washington scandal culture.

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The Clinton episode has made Capital Hill scandal-happy. Problem is, everybody seems to have their own nasty little secrets.
Bloodbath in the District of Columbia Consider Friend Bill, the preeminent hair-ball barfed up from the stomach of the overfed, self-satisfied cat that is our current political system. He has not so much broken the law as shattered it with his earnest face by perjuring himself over and over to try

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8. Hold On to Your Phone Bill -- It's Merger Time

Commentary on lack of FCC concern about the effects of consolidation of telephone and broadcasting services on consumer interests and democracy. From Mother Jones.

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Wall Street is happy, and the Federal Communications Commission is complacent, but nobody seems to be looking out for consumers in the recent rash of communications mergers.
Brodner explains the business of satire and which senator is most fun to draw. , and other tidbits I found in a digital vault in Maryland. A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data. Discuss the latest from Mother Jones with other readers

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9. The Television Thing

This article by Jeffery Scheuer summarizes The Sound Bite Society, a study of television and ideology. (Dissent Summer 1995).

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