Word: medias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME FOR AMERICANS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Bias and the Media, Part 1," an examination of racism in communications, is the starting point for this series based on the proposition that 'nice' America is indeed racist, North and South, black and white. Singers Harry Belafonte and Lena Home, Writer Lawrence Neal and Psychiatrist Dr. Alvin Poussaint discuss the problems...
Messages from the media have bombarded Communicator Marshall McLuhan, 56, so rapidly that he hardly has time to translate them all into books. So he plans to publish a hot medium of his own - a newsletter called McLuhan's Dewline. Says the Canadian scholar-turned-guru: "It's going to be a distant-early-warning system to give advance notice to anyone who'll listen." Planned articles: "Love Thy Label as Thyself," "The End of the Muddle Class," and "The Executive as a Dropout." Should some disciples worry that McLuhan might label himself an ordinary editor...
...Greensboro (N.C.) News was angry enough to drop the strip for good, along with another strip where evildoers are casually obliterated without benefit of trial, Little Orphan Annie. Explained the paper on Page One: "We have been quick to criticize other communications media for exploiting and even glorifying violence. However, we have our own weaknesses in this field, and it is only right that we take the necessary steps to bring our practices into line with our editorial policy...
...defense, Stanton's telegram pointed out that social scientists have not established that there is a "causal relationship between the fictional portrayal of violence in the mass media and any increase of actual violence in American life." But that may be beside the point. What seems to disturb the majority of the nation's 180 million viewers is not the conclusions of sociologists, but the fact that the horrors of war, assassinations and riots are real enough; why bludgeon TV audiences with variations on violence...
...Price. After they learned the identity of the suspect, most Communist media switched to discrediting Israel instead of the U.S. "Arabs at the United Nations express the conviction," reported Radio Warsaw, "that Sirhan was a murderer hired to harm the Arab cause," adding somewhat lamely: "American commentators are trying to divert attention from internal U.S. affairs, which favor the atmosphere of violence, and instead put emphasis on external motives." The Arab press took pains to point out that Kennedy had "paid the price," as Beirut's Al-Bairag phrased it, of a pro-Jewish stand, also suggested that Kennedy...