Word: medias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they have plunged the local black community into an atmosphere of fear and distrust. These feelings are aimed especially at the police, who have responded to the violence against black women with much less enthusiasm than they have to similar crimes against life and property involving whites. The media has been no help either; until the most recent murders press coverage has often slighted or distorted the facts...
...that of Richard Burton [British explorer who translated the Arabian Nights], at coming to terms with Islam. Still, gross ignorance persisted, as it will whenever fear of the different gets translated into attempts at domination. The U.S. inherited the Orientalist legacy, and uncritically employed it in its universities, mass media, popular culture, imperial policy. In films and cartoons, Muslim Arabs, for example, are represented either as bloodthirsty mobs, or as hooknosed, lecherous sadists. Academic experts decreed that in Islam everything is Islamic, which amounted to the edifying notions that there was such a thing as an "Islamic mind," that...
Among the media lords, William S. Paley is senior, successful and powerful, having built CBS into a giant with $3 billion in revenues and a payroll of 37,000. He watched over the growth of CBS News, the domain of Murrow and Cronkite, into the best newsgathering service in radio and television. Executives who make $500,000 a year tremble at his displeasure. Yet just how powerful, by his own lights, is this powerful man? The answer says a lot about the alleged power of the press...
...main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us." Murrow that night was concerned, gloomy, a little shrill. He said he wasn't proposing to make television a 27-inch wailing wall, but his message sounded a bit like that. The power that Murrow wanted media lords like Paley to exercise is exactly the kind they are resolved...
Each year, the BAA must handle hundreds of applications from media groups around the world looking to come to the Hub for Marathon Monday. Understandably, some newspapers, radio and television units must be refused credentials; but one of the BAA's criteria for who will get those precious press passes severely tarnishes the glitter of the Boston event...