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* American Decency Association, American political organization advocating against pornography and " indecent " media
* 2004 – U. S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
Written forms of British and American English as found in newspapers and textbooks vary little in their essential features, with only occasional noticeable differences in comparable media ( comparing American newspapers with British newspapers, for example ).
An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.
Amy Lee Grant ( born November 25, 1960 ) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music.
Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.
Social critics have adopted this term to refer to how the synthesis of paranoid conspiracy theories, which were once limited to American fringe audiences, has given them mass appeal and enabled them to become commonplace in mass media, thereby inaugurating an unrivaled period of people actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
American media mogul Ted Turner bought the rights to the Doraemon anime series in the mid-1980s for an English-language release, but canceled it without explanation before any episodes were aired.
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky note in their book that Orwellian Doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called ‘ dichotomization ’; a component of media propaganda involving ‘ deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news ’.
American news media, including respected business publications such as Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, encouraged the public to invest in risky companies, despite many of the companies ' disregard for basic financial and even legal principles.
DC Comics, Inc. ( founded in 1934 as National Allied Publications ) is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media.
A July 8, 1980 New York Times Article titled " What George Steinbrenner is to the American League, Lee Eisenberg is to the Rotisseries League " set off a media storm that led to stories about the league on CBS TV and other publications.
" He received criticism from the Italian media and actress Sophia Loren who said " How dare he talk about Italian cinema when he doesn't know anything about American cinema?
* 1942 – Michael Bloomberg, American media mogul and politician
Captain Beatty, Montag's fire chief, personally visits him and tells him the story of how books lost their value and where the firemen fit in: Over the course of several decades ( with the starting point being after the American Civil War ), populations grew and people embraced new media, sports, and a quickening pace of life.
When they released the orbit of Sputnik to the media, the Russians were dumbfounded to learn how powerful American computers had become, as they would not have been able to calculate the orbit themselves.
Gumby has been the subject of a 233-episode series of American television as well as a feature-length film and other media.
* 2005 – Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, " for seminal contributions to nearly every area of solid and fluid mechanics, including fracture mechanics, turbulence, stratified flows, flames, flow in porous media, and the theory and application of intermediate asymptotics.
The Hearst Corporation is an American mass media group based in the Hearst Tower, Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.
The pictures were then leaked by American celebrity website TMZ on 21 August, before being reported worldwide by mainstream media on 22 August.
The photographs were shown by the American media, but British media were reluctant to republish them – royal aides suggested that Clarence House may contact the Press Complaints Commission ( PCC ) if the pictures are used by British publications.

American and critic
Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.
The American literary critic Fredric Jameson says of van Vogt:
The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
* 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American critic and academic ( d. 1933 )
* 1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic ( d. 2008 )
* 1882 – Marion Bauer, American composer, writer, and critic ( d. 1955 )
* 1884 – Will Cuppy, American author and critic ( d. 1949 )
* 1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, journalist, fashion designer, and critic ( d. 2008 )
* 1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic
* 1965 – Fiona Kelleghan, American academic and critic
* Eric Asimov ( born 1957 ), American wine critic
The American film critic Pare Lorentz defines a documentary film as " a factual film which is dramatic.
* 1885 – Deems Taylor American conductor and music critic ( d. 1966 )
Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.
John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governments of India during the 1950s, an intimate of Nehru who served as the American ambassador from 1961 to 1963, was a particularly harsh critic of Mountbatten in this regard.
The term film noir, French for " black film ," first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era.
Alain Silver, the most widely published American critic specializing in film noir studies, refers to film noir as a " cycle " and a " phenomenon ", even as he argues that it has — like certain genres — a consistent set of visual and thematic codes.
* 1959 – Owen Gleiberman, American film critic
* 1921 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic ( d. 2005 )
* 1947 – Frank P. Tomasulo, American film professor and critic
* 1886 – Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic ( d. 1963 )
Film critic John Raeburn discusses an early Capra film, American Madness ( 1932 ), as an example of how he had mastered the movie medium and expressed a unique style:

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