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End of the Semester Offensive Video Day

Couple of videos for you today: The first is a funny Hitler Finds Out episode that contains NSFW subtitles.  The second has to be the most offensive promotional video I’ve seen from a major American food corporation. Hitler Finds Out … Continue reading

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Media News Roundup

Hawaii passes Steven Tyler Act Would ban “unwanted photos or videos of others in private moments.”  Nice idea, but do celebs really get the right to say “pay attention to me now, but not now”? How Sen. Rand Paul used … Continue reading

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Newsweek to cease dead tree edition, going digital only

Newsweek (and Daily Beast) editor Tina Brown announced Oct. 18, 2012 that the long-time news weekly (is that redundant?) would put out its last paper edition on Dec. 31, 2012. After that date, it will be named Newsweek Global and be … Continue reading

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Link Ch. 5 – Meet Editor Bonnie Fuller

For the last 20 years, editor Bonnie Fuller has been a driving force in the world of popular magazines.  In this video, she talks about how she got involved with magazine editing:

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Link Ch. 5 – State of the News Media: Magazines

Here is a collection of State of the News Media reports about the magazine industry: 2011 – Magazines: A Shake-Out for News Weeklies 2010 – Is There A Future For Magazines? 2009 – A Tough Year For Magazines

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Link Ch. 5 – Beauty, Size & Age Part IV: A Very Special Issue

One issue that has stayed in my book Mass Communication: Living in a Media World has been the issue of beauty, size and age in magazine advertisements and editorial content. While the previous three posts date back a couple of … Continue reading

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Link Ch. 5 – Beauty, Size & Age Part III: Kelly Clarkson & Self Magazine

One issue that has stayed in my book Mass Communication: Living in a Media World has been the issue of beauty, size and age in magazine advertisements and editorial content.  Here is the third of three posts that look these … Continue reading

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Link Ch. 5 – Beauty, Size & Age Part II: The Woman on p 194

One issue that has stayed in my book Mass Communication: Living in a Media World has been the issue of beauty, size and age in magazine advertisements and editorial content.  Here is the second of three posts that look these … Continue reading

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Link Ch. 5 – Beauty, Size & Age Part I: Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty

One issue that has stayed in my book Mass Communication: Living in a Media World has been the issue of beauty, size and age in magazine advertisements and editorial content.  Here is the first of three posts that look these … Continue reading

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Link Ch. 5 Annie Leibovitz: Still a Dominant Image

I was debating today whether I ought to keep famed magazine photographer Annie Leibovitz as the opening vignette for the magazine chapter of my media literacy book Living in a Media World. sOn the one hand, I think that the … Continue reading

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