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Prepare yourself for the changing world of journalism with Rich?s WRITING AND REPORTING NEWS: A COACHING METHOD, the book that integrates new trends in the convergence of print, broadcast and online media while teaching fundamental skills. With information about blogs, multimedia writing, and new skills you?ll need for whatever career you choose, the Sixth Edition features tips, techniques, and real-life stories from writing coaches and award-winning journalists. A strong ?storytelling? approach makes the text accessible and interesting, helping you easily master the writing and reporting techniques you?ll need for success in any news medium. ... Read more

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Television news and the Cold War grew simultaneously in the years following World War II, and their history is deeply intertwined. In order to guarantee sufficient resolve in the American public for a long term arms buildup, defense and security officials turned to the television networks.In need of access to official film and newsmakers to build themselves into serious news organizations, and anxious to prove their loyalty in the age of blacklisting, the network news divisions acted as unofficial state propagandists.This book analyzes the shocking extent of their collaboration. ... Read more

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The Smoking Gun of Gov't Controll of US Mainstream Media
You truth warriors out there are going to love this excellent work by Nancy Bernhard. Even I, with the anti-establishment information I've gathered over the last several years found plenty to be shocked about. The culture in the US tells us that we have a free press. We grow up believing this and learn not to accept information espoused by media outside the "establishment". To put it bluntly, this is a lie. You already know this if you saw my review of Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press.

This book, "U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda" provides the reasons why we have the "Myth of a Free Press" as written about in "Into the Buzzsaw". This book takes us back to the beginning of commercial television and informs those of us born too late to have known this that, "Network television news was born at the dawn of the Cold War". After reading this book, one wonders if television was invented for the purpose of disseminating government propaganda.

"The broadcasting industry acted as a shill for the state and set to work selling the Cold War to the American public". This is an important observation by the author because it goes to the heart of the war in Iraq. The lesson is that the broadcasting industry acted as a shill for the state in 1950, in 2003, and all years inbetween and all years after. Hense, there is no free press in America. The JFK assassination? Oh, a lone nut did it. 9/11? Oh, a bunch of broken-english speaking arabs who couldn't fly, and under the control of a six foot four inch caveman half way around the world did it.

Some shocking quotes from the book:

"This book tells the story of a partnership between government information officers and network news producers to report and sell the Cold War to the American public". [the reader may replace "Cold War" with any American war of your choosing since WWII]

"Much of the news about the early Cold War on television was scripted, if not produced, by the defense establishment". [Can you say...Douglass Feith?]

"...all information became military information. Public service programming, required of stations for the use of the public frequencies, became the distribution channel for federal propaganda".

If you saw the mushroom cloud in the TV show "24" last year, here is where the idea came from: "As television matured, information officials grew more sophisticated at embedding Cold War messages into more popular entertainment programs, and avoided the apparent, if unremarked, impropriety of officidal control of news programming".

"Sometimes they admitted that their practices mimicked totalitarian methods, only dressed up for a public invested in freedom of information".

"[the networks] also believed sincerely that their lies served the ultimate interests of freedom. Such problematic exposure never came, in part because Americans overwhelmingly shared their belief in the righteousness of American institutions, and in part because they worked hard to disguise their programs".

"Most Americans construe their news media as aggressively oppositional and never see the extent to which the government controls the release of information, sells its version of events, and receives media cooperation in promoting its agenda. In the 1980's, for instance, the federal government spent a billion dollars a year on public relations programs. Officials tightly controlled the release of information, did so in extremely calculated ways ("spin"), insisted on the use of manageable journalistic pools in combat areas, and continually used television as a diplomatic and military tool. THE US WASN'T EVEN AT WAR IN THE 1980'S!!!!

And here's a quote that applies to the fraudulent "War on Terror" as much as it did the fraudulent "Cold War": "...they [the Truman State Department's public information officers] succeeded at selling the militarization of containment through systematic scare campaigns".

And finally, here's a quote that might remind one of the fascist Fox News Network: "...for propaganda to work in a capitalist democracy, it had to look like independently produced news".

To end this review, I'll just mention that the government set up the "Office of War Information" (OWI) for the purpose of disseminating lies and propaganda through the television networks. These special "Information" departments set up by the Pentagon have been a mainstay: see Douglass Feith's "Office of Special Plans" as described in James Bamford's book: A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and theAbuse of America's Intelligence Agencies and see my review of that work.

The bottom line, folks, it that your mainstream media is pure 100% propaganda for the state and they always have been. You must be a critical thinker.
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Yesterday's News is a collection of over forty contemporary and recent articles on newsreel history, presented chronologically, from the early years of the newsreels in the 1910s to their recent revival as the subject of academic research and a key source for historical documentaries. The book covers the filming of two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the rise of television news, and censorship, propaganda and political bias in the news. It explores how the newsreels were organized, the cameramen's experiences, and the overlooked role of women in the newsreels. It also features works by notable authors, including Graham Greene, Cecil Day-Lewis, Philip Norman and J.B. Priestley as well as articles fromThe Spectator, theFinancial Times, andSight and Sound.

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Jessica Simpson and her husband, Nick Lachey, were considered average entertainers until they bared their everyday lives to the world through the television show "Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica." The show boosted their popularity, but it also complicated their lives. Along with fame has come tension, as they juggle demanding careers while trying to hold their marriage together. ... Read more

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Discusses what makes a story newsworthy, the different people who are part of television newscasts, the reliability and distortions of these broadcasts, and how to use critical thinking when watching the news. ... Read more

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The occupational world of electronic news-gathering photographers is the focus of this study, which seeks to reveal their perceptions of their work and the knowledge and competence that underlie it. These goals are accomplished through the ethnographic analysis of qualitative data gathered through participant observation in their natural setting--at work. A reflexive description of the data explores the emerging nature of the occupation, the context of markets within which it exists, the people involved, and the practical skills required for the work. ... Read more

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Professor, check your facts
I didn't know I was in Professor Allen's book until a friend picked it up on Google.I would be wary of factual problems in the book because everything he wrote about me, except the spelling of my name, was wrong.
-Kirstie Wilde, former television news reporter and anchor, KGW-TV, Portland; KCST-TV, San Diego; KGTV-TV, San Diego; KRON-TV, San Francisco; WHAS-TV, Louisville; KNBC-TV, Los Angeles; KTTV-TV, Los Angeles; KCBA-TV, Monterey/Salinas, in that order. Also, I wasn't the first female anchor in any of those cities, but I was the first female floor director at KGW-TV, Portland, my first job.

Essential reading for those interested in Local TV News
If you have ever wondered why the local news on television looks similar from one town to the next, or how it came to be that local TV news is more important to most folks than what Peter, Dan, and Tom--or for that matter any nameless face on CNN, Fox News Channel or MSNBC have to say--then this is a must read for you.

It is obvious that Professor Allen is an academic and takes a scholarly approach to his subject matter.But his work is very accessible for the reader because much of the material was gleaned from the author's interviews with over 200 figures who were there when local news on television moved from fifteen minutes of headlines read from behind a desk each night--to the primary way millions of Americans get their daily news.

How this transformation came to be is at the core of this book.

Anyone who works in television news, or is contemplating a career in a tv newsroom should absolutely read this book.You'll get a great understanding about the multi-million-dollar business that drives most local television stations across the country. ... Read more

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In the aftermath of September 11, the nature of international news has resumed a central place in media debates and political analysis. In the first collection of its kind, influential journalists and scholars probe the future of international news. Topics include the conglomerates, ethnocentric imbalances in news reporting, the rise of non-Anglo news channels, approaches for reconstructing the international news agenda, the impacts of new technologies of production and diffusion, international news rhetoric, and audiences’ imagination of the "global" and their perceptions of international news coverage.

In a dialogue that is both descriptive and prescriptive, this book begins an encounter between media practitioners, activists, and academics, constituencies that have tended to talk past each other but are now beginning to find some shared concerns. ... Read more

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In recent years, communication scholars have taken a renewed interest in analyzing the audience and its impact on the communication process. Similarly, news editors and producers have often turned toward a marketing orientation which seeks to give new readers and viewers what they want, or at least what they say they want. Yet, there has still been little written about just how the audience factors into the news which is produced. Seeking to fill that niche, this book argues that audience images are quite important in the construction of news, but not easily detected. That is because journalists are not principally interested in their audience; they are interested in the news.

USE THIS PARAGRAPH ONLY FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... This volume argues that although journalistic images of the audience may be "incomplete," they do exist and powerfully help shape the work of journalists in producing journalistic texts. Using a case study of news workers and news texts at two Chicago newsgathering organizations, the Chicago Tribune and WGN-TV, this book:
* examines notions of audience and how they have been treated by academicians,
* presents a detailed description of the ways in which audience is embedded within the news construction process,
* presents a very representative set of journalistic news values,
* presents differing ideas of audience at three key levels of the news organizations -- reporters and news gatherers, editors and producers, and senior editors, producers, and news directors, and
* seeks to summarize and position this study within the larger body of mass communication research.
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Describes the work of news reporters, producers, assignmenteditors, and news directors, tells how to get started in broadcast journalism, and covers resumes, interviews, salaries, and ethics. ... Read more

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Title: February exhibits in Westchester. (Westchester Arts News).(Calendar)
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Title: Rivertowns Arts Council celebrates 40th anniversary. (Arts News).
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Title: Unique photography project teaches White Plains students valuable job skills. (Arts News).(White Plains, New York)(Brief Article)
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