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A Comparison Of Print And Broadcast News, Amanda Ferren Johnson May 2007

A Comparison Of Print And Broadcast News, Amanda Ferren Johnson

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The Future Of Viewer Control On Television Advertising, Sally O’Rourke May 2007

The Future Of Viewer Control On Television Advertising, Sally O’Rourke

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Public Discourse In The Lincoln Douglas Debates, Jessica Kernan Perez Apr 2007

Public Discourse In The Lincoln Douglas Debates, Jessica Kernan Perez

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Photojournalistic Manipulations Of Reality: The Power Over Knowledge, Valerie Friedman Jan 2007

Photojournalistic Manipulations Of Reality: The Power Over Knowledge, Valerie Friedman

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This project is an anthropological study on how students at Colby College interpret photojournalistic images and news media. Using extensive literature, I strove to find a better understanding of how news agencies and the media control the flow and availability of information. Through fieldwork and numerous research methods, I wanted to understand how students formed relationships with images and news stories they encountered. This paper shows how the media and images people see in the news controls the minds and ideas of the public. Newspapers, magazines, the radio, internet sites, television broadcasts, and other forms of news media are primary …