Word: medias
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...cultural phenomenon has been more studied and worried over than the effect of television on children. Parents wring their hands over content. Media watchdogs make careers launching competing studies. But while the grownups present position papers, guess what the kids are doing? They're alone in their bedroom, watching television. According to a major study measuring the media consumption of 3,000 kids, ages two to 18, released last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the typical American kid spends about 5 1/2 hours a day "consuming" media (computers and music, but mainly TV) at home. For kids eight...
...surveyed had no rules about TV) should at least know if the set is on. The data from this study show that television viewing is becoming an increasingly private, isolating activity, with homes having on average three TVs. Because of this, parents should develop some basic guidelines for family media...
Like many other Democrats, Mark McKinnon for a long time had little use for George W. Bush. A media consultant based in Austin, Texas, McKinnon had toiled for Democratic candidates for years, and once he nearly took a job with Bill Clinton. In 1990 he helped Ann Richards become Texas Governor, and he regarded her successor with partisan suspicion. But McKinnon, 44, was won over after a dinner with Bush in 1997. He went to work producing the TV ads for the Governor's landslide re-election campaign in 1998, and is now running Bush's media campaign for President...
When I read about the Ohio teens accused of a Columbine-style plot to go on a killing spree at their school [NATION, Nov. 8], I was angry but not surprised. After the massacre of students at Columbine High School, I often cringed at the way the media (including your publication) constantly referred to the political and social beliefs of the two murderers, giving them a national platform. A group of Ohio teens have a social message that they want the world to know about, and so they plan an attack on their school. Where would they get this idea...
OCCUPATION Media adviser to G.O.P. presidential candidate George W. Bush...