Word: medias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ground rule should be clarity in the way issues are presented. Even the most patient and literate voter must puzzle over some of the arcanely drafted proposals. And while the ballots are frequently abstruse, the media campaigns for or against measures are often all too simple. Many voters make up their minds at the last minute on the basis of scanty information and are susceptible to slanted arguments cleverly presented on television by well-heeled pressure groups...
...numerous places in the study, there are 20% to 40% that term "everything absolutely wrong. We call this moral absolutism, and there's a tremendous amount of it. What change there has been has occurred mainly in white, middle-class urban areas which are the areas that the media are constantly examining. But they do not reflect the country at large...
...recent political crackdowns by the apartheid regime, which have resulted in the banning of the remaining moderate black leaders and the outlawing of their organizations, has returned South Africa to the media spotlight. But the denial of social, political and economic rights to the black majority in South Africa is not new; it has proceeded for decades, and for years leaders of the anti-apartheid organizations in South Africa have called upon foreign multinationals to withdraw their investments as a means of hastening the downfall of the apartheid regime...
Landsmark gained world-wide publicity in 1976, when a group of youths, one of them carrying an American flag, attacked him on the Boston City Hall Plaza. A photograph of the incident was widely distributed by the news media...
PUMA was organized more than two years ago, partially to dramatize prostitutes' problems to the public and media. Steve Lewis, a Boston social worker, read about a similar group in San Francisco called COYOTE and he acted as a catalyst in bringing together several former as well as practicing prostitutes in a new Boston-based organization. Lewis's association with PUMA ended last January and Lesley Weeks, a former prostitute, now serves as its president and main spokesman...