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Online privacy and consumer protection: an analysis of portal privacy statements.
September 1, 2005... In an 1890 Harvard Law Review article, Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren had the foresight to argue that individual citizens should be free from having intimate information published by an increasingly powerful press. Basic human dignity, they...
News in an age of competition: the case of sensationalism in Dutch television news, 1995-2001.
September 1, 2005... The quality of the mass media performance has been subject of discussion for many decades, not only among media practitioners and their critics but also among media students (McQuail, 1992). One of the main topics in these discussions concerns...
Impact of popularity indications on readers' selective exposure to online news.(explicit or implicit)
September 1, 2005... The Internet has greatly contributed to the so-called information tide (Graber, 1984) that news consumers face. Using the World Wide Web to access news has become commonplace, with nearly two thirds of the people who "get news" using online...
As goes the statue, so goes the war: the emergence of the victory frame in television coverage of the Iraq war.
September 1, 2005... Wars begin in declarative, often formalized, moments. One country attacks another, followed by the solemn announcement by the aggrieved country and its allies that they are at war with the invading nation. Regardless of their origins, however,...
The seeds of audience fragmentation: specialization in the use of online news sites.
September 1, 2005... A number of recent appraisals of developing media technologies have emphasized the potential for the new media to fragment audiences (e.g., Chaffee & Metzger, 2001; Havick, 2000). This fragmentation is presumed to result from technologies that...
This just in: What I couldn't tell you on TV.(by Bob Schieffer)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Schieffer, B. (2004). This just in: What I couldn't tell you on TV. New York: Berkley. 432 pages.
Bob Schieffer's official title is interim anchor of the CBS Evening News, a description that seems unduly tentative for a man who has been a...
Media accountability and freedom of publication.(by Denis McQuail )(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... McQuail, D. (2003). Media accountability and freedom of publication. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 366 pages.
This is a timely book for two basic reasons. First, within the United States the courts are challenging the practice...
Erik Barnouw (1908-2001): broadcasting's premier historian.(Biography)
September 1, 2005... Erik Barnouw shaped the writing of American broadcasting history with his landmark trilogy published in the late 1960s. His historical work was responsible for making that subject academically respectable (because of his archival digging,...