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  U.S. Loses Momentum in Global Media Landscape
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  By way of introductions in the Women’s International Human Rights course I am taking this semester at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we shared which news sources we turn to for our international news intake. In a class of roughly 40 students, CNN, BBC and the New York Times led the...

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  Has "New TV Season" Become a Meaningless Phrase?
  Topic by Derrick Bang

  In the summer of 1967, doing my best to become an adolescent pop-culture junkie in that media-starved era, I fretted over the fates of my favorite TV shows: Star Trek , The Man from UNCLE , The Wild Wild West , Get Smart , Batman and — yes, I admit it — The Monkees . I would have...

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  TV Viewers Once Again Held Hostage During Provider Spats
  Topic by Derrick Bang

  On July 10, as a DirecTV satellite subscriber, our home lost all Viacom channels—among them Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV and VH1—as a byproduct of the hardball tactics employed during contract renegotiations between the two companies. The quarrel was resolved on July 20. Some...

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  Imposing Limits on Virtual Advertising
  Topic by Enelda Butler

  This month it was discovered that ads for the 2011 movie "The Zookeeper" were digitally imposed into a rerun of a 2007 episode of the television show "How I Met Your Mother." Product placement is extremely common in entertainment, ranging from television, movies, music videos and video games....

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  Does the Media Influence Crime?
  Topic by Nidhi Singh

  The world has experienced yet another act of terrorism and the horror of a mass shooting. On July 22, 2011, Norway faced a terrible tragedy with a bomb blast and a mass shooting in Oslo and Utøya, killing a reported number of 76 people. The media's constant reports allowed viewers and...

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  Farewell to the Name-Brand Film Critic?
  Topic by Derrick Bang

  It has become fashionable, following the deaths of famed actors, musicians, sports stars and other celebrities, to magnify their supposed uniqueness and insist that our lives are poorer for their absence, and their like never again will grace our now-further-impoverished mudball. That’s...