To free the world: George Gerbner wants to save us from the global media monopoly
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George Gerbner, an official at the University of Pennsylvania, founded the Cultural Environment Movement as a way of fighting the monopoly of global media enterprises. The group, which is composed of 150 individuals and groups, deplores the crass commercialism that envelops modern media.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1997
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Remote control: how to raise a media skeptic
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The best way to teach children to detect the deceptions that mass media often give them is not to bar them from watching TV but to sit by their side and show them how messages are manipulated. In this manner, the child learns to discriminate between the real and the false.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1997
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