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The Providence Sunday Journal article ( Jan. 29 ) asking whether American taxpayers are being victimized by a gigantic giveaway to pay for the care of war veterans who have non-service-connected disabilities sounds as though The Providence Journal is desperate for news.
It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends.
The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.
* ABC News, is the news broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company
American Media's corporate headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, figured prominently in news headlines in late 2001, after an anthrax attack was perpetrated on the company.
* Atlantis Cable News ( ACN ), a fictional news channel on the American HBO drama television series The Newsroom
* 1969 – Robin Meade, American news anchor
* 1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had " gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.
Some of the American bodies were dragged through the streets – a spectacle broadcast on television news programs.
In 2006 the Herald won two SABEW awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for its breaking news coverage of the takeover of local company Gillette Co. and for overall excellence.
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 ’.
From 1898 American producer Charles Urban expanded the London-based Warwick Trading Company to produce British films, mostly documentary and news.
* 1940 – Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman
In 1973 Segal disrupted the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite, an event covered in newspapers across the country and viewed by 60 % of American households, many seeing or hearing about homosexuality for the first time.
* 1959 – Keith Olbermann, American news anchor & political commentator
* 1947 – Ann Compton, American news reporter
On 7 December 1941 Ribbentrop was jubilant at the news of Pearl Harbor, and did his utmost to support declaring war on the United States, which he duly delivered to the American Chargé d ' Affaires Leland B. Morris on 11 December 1941.
Lindy Hop moved off-shore in the 1930s and 40s, again in films and news reels, but also with American troops stationed overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other allied nations.
John Lott and Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute study the coverage of economic news by looking at a panel of 389 U. S. newspapers from 1991 to 2004, and from 1985 to 2004 for a subsample comprising the top 10 newspapers and the Associated Press.
For example, analysts from the centrist Brookings Institution and conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute are those most quoted in mainstream news accounts ; liberal think tanks are often invisible.
* 1976 – Dave Malkoff, American TV news reporter

American and media
* 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 critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.
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.
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.

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