JANUARY
31 Survey
Finds First Amendment is left behind in US Schools;
news story
31 KFF Issue
Brief: The Effects of Electronic Media on Children Ages Zero to Six: A
History of Research
30 Teens
not so web savvy; study shows some not as web literate as parents
Children's
TV fears a funding flap after "Buster"
Gays
are closeted on kids' TV
28 Do you ever wonder what we DON'T know? Third
pundit paid by Bush Administration
27 Survey
says web users are confused over search engines results, ads
26 Another
Journalist admits being paid by Bush
I participated in an education panel discussion on Wednesday in Charleston SC at the NETA
Annual conference.
21st Century Skills: The Increasing Role of Media in the Nation's Classrooms
was presented to
representatives of education departments of PBS stations and related
agencies.
There is lots of interest in media education among the PBS
community.
23 Late night talk show host Johnny Carson died at age 79 of emphysema.
Carson hosted NBC's "The Tonight Show"
for 30 years. I had the good fortune of being in the audience with my parents
one night back in 1979. Just
our luck, for on that night Johnny came into the audience to play "Stump
The Band." USA
Today's coverage
21 FCC Chair Powell signals intention to resign
19 Food
guidelines: ads need to go easy on kids
17 Measuring
literacy in a world gone digital
Women's
magazines downplay smoking risks; full
report
Food Industry Has a resolution too
Critics:
Bush's PR was Propaganda
16 All
the President's Newsmen (OpEd)
14 FCC to probe legality of pundit's deal
(see Jan.6)
12 CLARENCE PAGE: LEAVE PAYOLA-PUNDITS BEHIND, TOO
12 Kraft Foods to limit junk food advertising: Several
links: Kraft
PR Mediapost
AdAge
LA
Times see also Food
Ads category
10 CBS axes newspeople after Memogate
investigation release (note: report is 234 pages);
Analysis; Columbia Journalism Review's How
CBS' critics blew it; A
Setback for a Network, And the Mainstream Media;
sample of editorial
cartoons; Rather Unconvinced Memos Are Fake
7 CSPI calls for Nutrition Standards and
Curbs on TV Advertising, Movie Tie-Ins, School-based Marketing
and Other Tactics for Selling Junk Food to Children (PR,
Guidelines)
6 White
House paid commentator to promote NCLB law
Reaction: Propaganda/Williams
deal defines a new low; 'Payola
punditry' has no place in serious journalism
5 Obesity As a media issue: report
3 Posted new section on media coverage of Tsunami disaster
2
Pew Study of the state of blogging