Monthly Archives: July 2012

In With the New Out with the Old: The New Face of Media

Posted on July 3, 2012 by jmandel

In the beginning there was newspaper. Over time news started to be offered in different forms. Radio and then television became sources for news, among other things. Back before the Internet, a news story took longer to break because you …

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Internet Take Over Leads to Newspaper Decline

Posted on July 3, 2012 by scsmith

Over the last century, news has changed drastically. Original newspapers were focused solely on politics and general world news. The journalists here in the United States did not even write their own articles but rather repeated the stories and information …

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Government Documents or Bust!

Posted on July 3, 2012 by ljthom

The media has a duty to the people of the United States of America to report on its government and government officials. It is the media’s job to inform the general public so that they can make educated decisions on …

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Egyptian Government Being Challenged by Voices on the Internet

Posted on July 3, 2012 by chrisba1986

In 2006, Wael Abbas became an inspiration for a new generation of bloggers in which he posted a video on his blog that went viral on the internet of two police officers attacking a bus driver in Egypt. The two …

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Is there too much information availble to the public?

Posted on July 3, 2012 by samsheres

In today’s world, we are always given a plethora of information.  With the addition of tools such as the internet, a simple search for something leads to hundreds and thousands of sites that may not be any more useful than …

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Our Brains Just Can’t Take Much More Of This

Posted on July 3, 2012 by pascalk09

We are drowning in choice. Everyday there are millions of bits of information being sent throughout the world. Especially when it comes to news. News is something that doesn’t interest a huge chunk of society, yet it still finds it …

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Quick Doesn’t mean Better

Posted on July 3, 2012 by bsnider92

Print Media has been the back bone of our culture in America, along with most other cultures that have existed up to this point. However, now it is being threatened by an upcoming heavy weight by the name of the …

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Dwight Howard and the “new” Media

Posted on July 3, 2012 by jumarshall17

The other day I was in a tiny shop in Winter Park, and the sales woman was making small talk, and asked me what my major was. When I told her Radio-Television she made a face and said,”The media ruins …

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Life is the best Educational Programming for Children

Posted on July 2, 2012 by ballspach

I have witnessed many people speaking of the negative effects of television on children and how the programming is so much better today than it was years ago. As a parent I do agree that the educational level of the …

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