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  Media Matters - Media Personalities
Media Matters tags each item according to media personality, TV/radio show, network/publication, and the subject (broken down by issue, subissue, or a particular topic).
Please note: An item may fall under the umbrella of a particular issue but may not be further categorized under a subissue or topic.
Media Matters uses a taxonomy structure to help readers find information on various subjects.
mediamatters.org /issues_topics/media_personalities   (175 words)

  
  Omedia : Ethics and the Media- The Media's Performance- Between Stridency and Emotional Blackmail
The Israeli media has become so mortgaged to ratings, which are primarily serviced by emphasis on the negative and exceptional in order to attract viewer and reader attention to its merchandise, that it automatically ascribes every "problem" to Israel even if the "problem" is totally unrelated to Israel, as in the Syrian case.
For example, in indictments presented to the court against criminals, whose actions were published in the media, we can encounter graphic descriptions that appear to have been taken word for word from the Israeli media (in a current example of an indictment-- "The mother turned her son into a veritable punching bag").
Many media personalities tend to use the expression "the public's right to know", but this expression has over the past years become a tool of gossip which focuses on the margins of the real debate and even this only under the best of circumstances.
omedia.org /Show_Article.asp?DynamicContentID=1843&MenuID=681&ThreadID=1014003   (2829 words)

  
 Class: Media
A media personality is someone who is more than just a journalist or teevee presenter, they have to have those skills as well, but to be noticed you need something more, something that grabs the viewers and says "watch me".
Media personalities are proficient with all advanced firearms, and light armour.
As such, a media personality with this feat can always take 10 when dealing with acts of Charisma whilst in combat, and can be considered to be acting normally when others around them are scurrying like rats to find cover.
www.fluency.paintedtarget.org /df/redline/cl_media.html   (779 words)

  
 Downloadable Custom RS Media Personalities: RoboCommunity
Since so many of you robo-enthusiasts are the creative types, we encourage you to create new personalities for your RS Media and share them with the world by sending them to us.
The default RS Media personality with 8 dance demos: RoboBoa's dance, RoboQuad's dance, Robosapien V1's dance, Robosapien V2's dance, RS Media's dance, the cowboy's dance, the butler's dance, and SpaceBot's dance.
This is the default personality that comes with the RS Media (just in case you need to restore yours).
www.robocommunity.com /article/10595/Downloadable-Custom-RS-Media-Personalities/?src=110   (529 words)

  
 Working with the media
As is the case with so many things they do, public relations practitioners' relationships with the media need to be based on and reflect the needs and the orientation of their organizations, not the practitioners' personal likes and dislikes, nor even their notions of journalistic excellence.
The key to media relations is to remember your organization's ultimate target audiences and select the media that provide the most effective ways of reaching them.
When public relations practitioners remember to look at their goals and interests through the eyes of the media and the media's audiences, and when they use these insights to relate to the media people with whom they work, media relations is one of the most effective ways to enhance an organization's public relations.
www.nku.edu /~turney/prclass/readings/media_rel.html   (1533 words)

  
 TBS 11:The Region and the World
It is safe to say that the balance between guest appearances in the broadcast media and in print always tipped heavily in favour of the print media, as is evidenced by a comparison between the kind of spin given to the guest appearances.
This is a language well known to media personalities who want to become famous, and who understand the appeal of broadcast media, and sometimes the language of monetary appeal.
Of course that is not an issue with print media, in which essayists and editorial writers can pick out the words they wish to include in their articles and they can edit in such a way as to clarify obscure points; and they generally have the time to do this, while broadcast media do not.
www.tbsjournal.com /Archives/Fall03/Tayyar.html   (1337 words)

  
 Abstract from Recent Issue of Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
During this same period, the popular belief has also been that the media has played a significant role in transmitting the belief that "thin is in" to children, adolescents and young adults; and that these images primarily affect women.
That is, if media exposure indeed gives rise to disordered eating, it is an individual's personal attraction to these thin media personalities that functions as a kind of "moderating variable," thus enabling media exposure to do its damage more efficiently.
BEA is a non-profit, educational association comprised of academics and professionals involved in radio, television and electronic media education.
www.beaweb.org /98news/jobem.html   (562 words)

  
 The Holy Spirit on air in Ghana / 2005/2 / Media Development / Publications / Home - World Association for Christian ...
A media concentration pattern evolves that is not dissimilar to the growth of Christian mega-networks and media-heavy mega-churches in the US, with the difference that in Ghana churches may not own broadcast media.
Media are first of all an effective channel for spreading the gospel of Christ to the masses.
Such media pastors have become popular personalities, are interviewed for entertainment magazines, present gospel shows, and are hired by various churches to host or perform on special occasions.
www.wacc.org.uk /wacc/publications/media_development/2005_2/the_holy_spirit_on_air_in_ghana   (2719 words)

  
 The Cult of Celebrity
Entertainment and media personalities are dominating the elections, easing out the trapos of old.
For the most part, showbiz and media personalities are perceived as the opposites of trapos.
After all, it is not unusual for fans to speak of their screen idols as if they were family and close friends—complete with imaginary tampuhan (mutual hurt) and true feelings of romantic love.
www.pcij.org /imag/Media/celebrity.html   (920 words)

  
 Media Framing: Persuasion & Influence Through Your TV
Known as the "agenda-setting" hypothesis, the idea that people were easily susceptible to media influence was soon derided as an overly simplistic misperception of the viewing audience.
Through most of this century, media pundits claimed that the public wasn't susceptible to simple "hypodermic" injections from the media (and you can still hear this defense put forward by today's media moguls).
Media personalities often explain national changes in mood by denigrating the fickle, mindless American public.
www.workingpsychology.com /mediafr.html   (710 words)

  
 Media School - AAFT, a media school guided by eminent media personalities
Through these 12 years, we have acted as a film and media training school with an aim to train the students with the latest techniques of film and tv productions, through our extensive theoretical and practical training.
As you get the opportunity to observe and work with some of the great media persons from the industry, you get the feel of the challenging professional atmosphere, which you have to face as a professional, at this media school.
Apart from these courses the media school of Asian Academy of Film and Television, the University of Media Arts is all set to start the PHD program in July 2005.
aaft.com /media-school.html   (447 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro - Capillas: Media foibles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
SOMETIME a month ago, a media colleague once went up to me and asked that the publication of blind items referring to the foibles and errant ways of some media practitioners--if they can strictly be called that--not be published at this paper's "The Buzz" section.
The media colleague explained that there are print media practitioners who "barter"--for want of a better term--print space or station airtime to certain personalities, including politicians in exchange for payment.
To cover up these episodes of irregularities committed by these so-called media personalities would be to ignore the harsh reality that there is also dirt within media ranks, notwithstanding the excuse of economic difficulties these people use as justification to engage in their little acts of shenanigans.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/cag/2006/10/11/oped/stephen.capillas.the.lowdown.html   (724 words)

  
 Media School - AAFT, a media school guided by eminent media personalities
Through these 12 years, we have acted as a film and media training school with an aim to train the students with the latest techniques of film and tv productions, through our extensive theoretical and practical training.
As you get the opportunity to observe and work with some of the great media persons from the industry, you get the feel of the challenging professional atmosphere, which you have to face as a professional, at this media school.
Apart from these courses the media school of Asian Academy of Film and Television, the University of Media Arts is all set to start the PHD program in July 2005.
www.aaft.com /media-school.html   (447 words)

  
 Media Monitor - Thanks to AIM Supporters - December 14, 2006
I recently heard from an assistant to Professor Doris Graber, author of the $56 college textbook, Mass Media and American Politics, the target of one of our postcards because she claimed that AIM was founded in the 1980s.
I will add that conservative talk radio and conservative television personalities like Hannity and O'Reilly (actually a liberal to this guerilla reporter) have such large audiences because Americans are mostly God fearing conservatives as opposed to the godless liberals who have dominated the networks and print publications for decades.
Jeff Cohen was out of his league in debating Cliff Kincaid about media bias and in the end the facts and superior ideas presented by Cliff Kincaid won out over the emotion and unsubstantiated claims of Cohen.
www.aim.org /media_monitor/5081_0_2_0_C   (749 words)

  
 Grading TV's War News - 04/23/03 - MRC Special Report - Media Research Center
Grading TV's War News - 04/23/03 - MRC Special Report - Media Research Center
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Founded in 1987, the MRC is a 501 (c)(3) non profit research and education foundation.
www.mediaresearch.org /specialreports/2003/warnews2.asp   (1562 words)

  
 Media influence eating disorders
While the appearance of waif-like models in the media may send a dangerous message about eating disorders, general fitness and fashion magazines and television shows with thin characters also play a key role in influencing irregular eating patterns of young women, says Kristen Harrison, assistant professor of communication studies.
Harrison says that the relationship between mass media consumption and symptoms of women's eating disorders appears to be stronger for magazine reading than for television viewing.
In a related study using the same sample of women, Harrison found that an interpersonal attraction to thin media personalities is related to disordered eating above and beyond the influence of mere exposure to media, even those that depict or promote thinness.
www.umich.edu /~urecord/9798/Oct22_97/media.htm   (686 words)

  
 Media Monitor
The transformation was complete by the mid-70’s, when mention of Israel was rarely made in media circles without the obligatory epithets “intransigent” and “militaristic” firmly attached.
The reaction of the American media to the ascension of Begin — for decades vilified as a fanatical right-winger by both fellow Israelis and prominent Jews abroad — was one of disbelief, followed by unremitting scorn.
Media animus would peak with the invasion of Lebanon in the spring and summer of 1982, as journalists for the first time compared Israelis to Nazis and obligingly parroted PLO casualty figures and related propaganda.
www.jewishpress.com /page.do/20111/Media_Monitor.html   (574 words)

  
 Mainstream Media Introduction - Global Issues
Even one of the most famous media personalities in American news, Dan Rather of CBS, has admitted that there has been a lot of self-censorship and that the U.S. media in general has been cowed by patriotic fever.
Sadly, too many media owners—many of whom have great power—see the role of the media differently: they believe the role of the media is to comfort the comfortable and ignore the afflicted.
The mainstream media of the developed and freer, nations pose an often unmentioned or poorly analyzed problem: the lack of objective reporting that is not influenced and, to a growing degree, controlled by elites to advance their interests.
www.globalissues.org /HumanRights/Media/Intro.asp   (4588 words)

  
 JaxAirNews.com: Local media personalities take wing 11/02/06
Media representatives from the city of Jacksonville got to experience the opportunity of a lifetime by being selected as riders for the Blue Angels media flight Oct. 25 at NAS Jacksonville.
At each air show throughout the season, up to three media representatives are selected and must be cleared for the flight.
The Blue Angels Team Narrator Lt. Kevin Davis, referred to as ''Seven'' by his crew chiefs, pilots the No. 7 aircraft and is responsible for the media and VIP flights.
www.jaxairnews.com /stories/110206/mil_media001.shtml   (913 words)

  
 mediabistro.com: Articles: Dilemmas in Media Reporting: Is Navel Gazing Good for You?
They are, of course, tonally different from the straight reportage, and consciously make an effort to cover media personalities in a satirical vein, as if they were conventional celebrities—partly in the hopes that doing so will emphasize the ridiculousness of doing so sincerely.
The downsides of media reporting—the incestuous nature of it, the endless navel-gazing, the near impossibility of avoiding self-referentiality—are small prices to pay for the merits of doing something that can, when executed properly, make an enormous difference in the maintenance of a free press.
Media reporting, when done well, is an important tool in the industry's ability to police itself, and in this day and age, everyone with a blog or the ability to write a letter to the editor is a potential media critic and reporter.
www.mediabistro.com /articles/cache/a4457.asp   (1485 words)

  
 Media Personalities Play In Poker Tournament.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Media 25 Hundred was filmed at studios in London, and aired over the weekend.
The media knockout event was even more popular that the expected viewer turnout.
The event being a hit with the print media players means there will be another one.
www.crownonlinecasino.com /poker-game-for.php   (277 words)

  
 Review of "The Media Equation"
The conclusion with Reeves and Nass draw from the series of experiments which they outline in the book is that people treat and respond to media (computers, televisions, etc.) in just the same way as they treat and respond to other people in everyday social interaction.
According to the media equation, media and real life are the same, so people should also like media whose personalities are like their own".
For each, their experimental results show the same results for people's responses to media as were found in the original experiments on people's responses to other media.
www.ics.uci.edu /~jpd/publications/media-review.html   (1512 words)

  
 Lies, damned lies, and media speak || Family Life International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The recent reaction and commentary by many media personalities regarding the issue of the gratuitous Bloody Mary episode of South Park shows quite plainly that “religious tolerance” and “responsible broadcasting” are two terms that are not properly understood in New Zealand.
That sounds a lot like media totalitarianism to me; where the media has the right to insult whoever they like, and broadcast all sorts of profanity, while the citizens of their brave new world must be subservient to their power.
The media is abusing its right to true freedom of expression when they use that freedom to spread obscenity, lies, and religious intolerance.
www.fli.org.nz /?sid=6&id=44   (404 words)

  
 Media Curmudgeon
Matthews, like most self-absorbed, ego-centered media personalities, believed the events were about him, that he was the center of the universe, that the focus should be on him, not the debaters or the guests on his MSNBC program.
Conversely, print media and the Internet are non-linear pull media in which the audience can select what they want, go back and forth, and have random access to content they are interested in.
For very person that says 24-hour news is to blame to excessive coverage, there are three people who appreciate the opportunity to be updated on the story any time they wish.
www.mediacurmudgeon.com   (9091 words)

  
 ABS-CBN Interactive
Local and international media groups on Sunday said they are alarmed over the recent government takeover of broadsheet Daily Tribune on the basis of Presidential Proclamation No. 1017 and the increasing threats to press freedom.
There are cases of our brethren in the broadcast media being tailed or troops being deployed in their premises," he said.
Conrado de Quiros, another PDI columnist, said the media should not be "cowed" by the threats to press freedom and the best defense is to "do what we do" at this time.
www.abs-cbnnews.com /topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=31121   (1167 words)

  
 AsiaMedia :: BANGLADESH: Policy for electronic media during CG stressed
Media personalities and civil society members at a meeting yesterday stressed the need for formulating a policy for the electronic media during the caretaker government in order to pave the way for a free and fair election.
Presenting a paper, cultural personality Ramendu Majumder said all the governments have used the BTV and Bangladesh Betar for the interest of the ruling parties.
As the electronic media has easier access to households, question about the role of the private channels in the run-up to the election might be raised, he added.
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=55155   (506 words)

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