Word: medias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...singers, and concentrate on their singing, something that's very hard to do when the dancers are performing in front of them. For the actors, the music disappears, except for the drone, and one is left with words. Had the material and the performers in all three media been equally good. I could only remark on the success of the syntheses. But there is no comparison...
...finally held public hearings in Mississippi's capital at Jackson. Witnesses included Governor Paul Johnson, who argued that "the unfavorable and false image of Mississippi that has been created by the few in our state who have committed unpardonable criminal acts has been exploited by unfriendly national news media." They also included 41 Mississippi Negroes, telling of the civil rights abuses they have suffered in their native state. But the plight of Negroes in Mississippi was perhaps most strikingly illustrated by a white segregationist: G. H. Hood, voting registrar of Humphreys County in the western part of Mississippi...
...smokers: "You'll still have the precious right to smoke yourself to death with a wonderful selection of brands at your suicidal disposal." But the restriction may not end with TV, if Labor has its way. Said Health Minister Kenneth Robinson: "The question of cigarette advertising in other media is still under consideration...
...liberal groups want to mute his voice. More than 40 organizations-including the Greater Philadelphia Council of Churches, the N.A.A.C.P., the Philadelphia chapter of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, and the Roman Catholic weekly Commonweal-asked the FCC to ban the sale of radio station WXUR in Media, Pa., to Mclntire's Faith Theological Seminary in nearby Elkins Park, which trains preachers for his American Council of Christian Churches and other fundamentalist churches...
Wideman and Ross felt they had proved their point that the press was out "to amuse rather than inform." "In their haste to present stories that are eye-catching and entertaining, too many of the news media have sacrificed accuracy in their reporting," they decreed in a statement explaining the hoax...