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MediaSTORMWATCH
A
nonprofit educational media studies project
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"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." |
About MediaStormwatch I have established MediaStormwatch to study the bias, imbalance and agenda-setting of today's concentrated media market. The filtering and blatant manipulation of what consumers receive through the traditional channels of communciation: television, newspapers and newsweekies -- is giving Americans a view of the world shaped more by perception than reality. MediaStormwatch is a nonprofit, educational media studies project looking at available academic research, industry analysis and popular opinion of the state of the mass media today. --Paul
J. Elliott
Mount Pleasant, Michigan May 2007 |
Managing
the New Closed Captioning Rules
Television
station managers and news directors are
facing new
closed captioning requirements
that will quicken the pace of
technological development and move
broadcasting ever closer to the
digital era. Congress and the Federal
Communications Commissionon are
committed to imposing regulations that will ensure that closed
captioning requirements will apply to digital broadcasting. However,
the National Association of Broadcasters
and other industry groups have been reluctant to embrace the
technological possibilities that have the
potential effect on one in 12 Americans.
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