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Atm Crime & Security Newsletter, Vol. 1 No. 2, Francis B. Schreiber

ATM Crime and Security Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Atm Crime & Security Newsletter, Vol. 1 No. 1, Francis B. Schreiber

ATM Crime and Security Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Understanding Babies And The Changing World, Glen F. Palm

Child and Family Studies Faculty Publications

Originally appears as:

Palm, Glen (1991) "Understanding Babies and the Changing World" Views, Summer 1991.

Views was published by the Minnesota Council on Family Relations and the Minnesota Association for the Education of Young Children.

Impersonation Speaking, Robert D. Kendall

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

The catalog description of SPC 337 reads like this: "The study of First Person Monologs as a form of pub!ic speaking. Research and development of an historical character/speaker for public presentation." Allow me to expand on this capsulized description. This course attempts to teach students the process of developing and delivering a public speech that some historical character of their choosing could have given at some point in that person/s life. Through a series of carefully planned assignments, one building upon the other, each student researches the life, character and times of a histor-ical figure: writes an original speech for …

Chain Ownership And Editorial Independence: A Case Study Of Gannett Newspapers, Roya Akhavan-Majid, Anita Rife, Sheila Gopinath

Mass Communication Faculty Publications

A comparison of the editorial positions taken on three public issues in 1989 by 56 newspapers in the Gannett group with a matched set of 155 other newspapers finds that Gannett newspapers were more likely to take positions, but also less likely to vary in the positions taken. (Also, 72% of the Gannett newspapers responded to the survey of editors versus 52% of the matched set of editors queried.) The study did not seek to find evidence that the newspapers were influenced by higher headquarters, but does suggest a number of ways that subtle influences may work within groups.

American Mass Media And The Myth Of Libertarianism: Toward An "Elite Power Group" Theory, Roya Akhavan-Majid

Mass Communication Faculty Publications

This paper presents evidence of the demise of Libertarianism in the U.S. mass media system and proposes an “elite power group” model as an alternative explanation of the workings of the mass media in the United States. In sharp contrast to the structural characteristics implied by the Libertarian model, the U.S. media industry is organized as an elite power group characterized by

• growing concentration and conglomeration,
• integration with other power elites, and
• ability to exercise self-serving control on the government even as it is controlled by it.