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- Monstrous Media Kit by CyberPuppy
- Internet Guide for Teachers, Students, and Media Specialists (ICONNECT)
- A Day in History (Media Designs)
- Sports Resources (Sports Media)
Provides resources in education, organizations, guides, research, software, and more.
- Chemistry for Kids (Rader New Media)
- Matter (Rader New Media)
"We've already told you that chemistry is the study of matter and how it changes and interacts with other matter. But what is matter?" 12-02
- Elements (Rader New Media)
"As far as we know there are only so many basic elements. Up to this point in time we have discovered/created over 100. While there may be more out there to discover, the basic elements remain the same. Iron atoms found on Earth are identical to Iron atoms found on meteorites. The Iron atoms on Mars that make the soil red are the same too." 12-02
- Chemical Reactions (Rader New Media)
- Calendars (StartSpot Mediaworks - Library Spot)
Provides nine interesting types of calendars.
- Browsers (INT Media Group)
Provides a comprehensive set of links to browsers for Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, OS/2, UNIX and other operating systems. 9-01
- Conflict Prevention and Mediation
- Events - Media for Kids, Families and Educators (KidsNet)
Provides a monthly listing of television programs appropriate for kids, families or educators. Identifies the appropriate audience for each event, including the grade level of children. Notes if the program has supporting materials for education and the types of materials. Also identifies if the program is available in Spanish or closed captions.
- Literature - Classical (Able Media)
Provides lessons related to ancient Greek mythology, history, and literature. Requires the use of the Adobe Reader, which is free.
- Current Events Through Mass Media (Levine)
Provides dozens of sources for studying current events.
- -Phone (MediaRing)
Provides free Internet phone service. Sound is of good quality, but both parties will need duplex sound cards for both of you to speak at once, as with any Internet phone system. An advantage of this system is that you can call someone, even when they are NOT online, and ring them or leave a message. Does not yet support DSL lines. 9-05
- Reference Information (StartSpot Mediaworks - Gov Spot)
Provides well organized sources of information related to government. 4-00
- Catholic - News Media (Catholic.net)
Provides dozens of sources of Catholic news from magazines, newspapers, radio, and more. 10-00
- Demographics - Who Uses the Internet (The Standard Media International)
Provides a summary of who uses the Internet. 10-00
- Media - Who Owns What in the Media (Columbia Journalism Review)
Provides a listing of companies owned by each of the largest media companies to show who controls what we see and how we see it. 6-01
- Color Elements and Principles, Concepts, Media, Styles, and Artists (Sanford)
Provides an introduction to color in painting. 9-01
- Media Campaign for Recycling (Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance)
Provides free media that you can use to conduct a public awareness campaign in your own community to increase recycling and reduce waste. 1-02
- Corporate Control of Mass Media (Corporations.org - Media Reform Information Center)
Contends that six corporations control almost all of the mass media in the USA. 7-02
- Media in a Democracy (Boston Review - McChesney)
"An informed, participating citizenry depends on media that play a public service function. As James Madison once put it, 'A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.' But these democratic functions lie beyond the reach of the current American media system. If we are serious about democracy, then, we need to work aggressively for reform."
"What kind of reform? In broad terms, we need to reduce the current degree of media concentration, and, more immediately, blunt its effects on democracy. More specifically, we need special incentives for nonprofits, broadcast regulation, public broadcasting, and antitrust." 11-02
- Media in a Democracy - A 12-Step Approach (The Nation - Chester and Larson)
"For this is a twelve-step plan on behalf of a more democratic media system, a collective effort to ensure that alternative, independent voices will still be heard over the growing din of conglomerate media culture." 11-02
- Democracy, Media, and Deregulation (PBS.org - NOW)
Provides stories on the effects of deregulation on building monopolies in the mass media. Also discusses how monopolies in mass media affect diversity of views. 4-03
- Who Owns What in the Media (PBS.org)
"Examine the charts breaking down what each of the five U.S. media giants now control (as of February 2001)." 4-03
- Mass Media and Diversity (TheNation.com - Miller)
"Of all the [media] cartel's dangerous consequences for American society and culture, the worst is its corrosive influence on journalism." Includes a chart of the holdings of the ten largest media giants. Shows how they control almost all mass media. 4-03
- Promoting Public Discourse in Broadcast Media (MediaAccess.org)
"Media, particularly broadcast media, presents a significant opportunity to educate this country's citizens about important issues of the day." 4-03
- Radio's Media Mess (Salon.com - Boehlert)
According to the essay, deregulation in radio has caused such a mess by consolidating power into one company, that it is creating barriers to deregulation of other broadcast media. 4-03
- On Media Giantism (The New York Times - Safir)
In this essay, William Safir discusses the dangers of monopolies in the mass media. 4-03
- Democracy and Media
- Democracy, Media, and Deregulation (ReclaimtheMedia.org - Lawson)
"The most likely result of dropping our cross-ownership ban would not be the creation of small, geographically-focused media firms sharing resources to create high-quality, regionally accountable content. Rather, such deregulation, combined with loosened broadcast ownership caps, would throw open the door to the expansion of already-huge national networks with the market power to choke out or absorb small competitors, with programming decisions emitted from centralized headquarters. (Imagine a faintly localized version of USA Today being the only newspaper and CNN the only TV or radio broadcast news source available to a community)." 4-03
- Democracy, Media, and Deregulation (Alternet.org - Schmelzer)
"Indeed, the issue of centralized news will be exacerbated after the FCC's June 2 vote on ownership. On the chopping block are six regulations that attempt to preserve a diversity of voices and local control of media – from the ban on owning both a TV station and newspaper in the same market to limits on how many radio stations one group can own in a given area."
"Should the FCC vote to weaken these protections – as expected – more of our airwaves will be concentrated in the hands of a few corporations."
Nichols says, " ' We still have a highly regulated media. The only thing that is changing is that it's now being regulated in the interests not of democracy or the people, but larger corporations.' " 4-03
- 07-24-03 U.S. House Moves to Reduce Media Monopoly (BBC News)
"The House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a spending bill that would block the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) from raising the limit on television ownership by a single broadcaster." 7-03
- 09-03-03 Court Blocks Media Dominance Rules (USAToday.com)
"A federal appeals court on Wednesday issued an emergency stay delaying new Federal Communications Commission media ownership rules that would allow a single company to own newspapers and broadcast outlets in the same city."
"In a loss for the Republican-led FCC, the three-judge panel of the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia granted a stay that prevents the new rules from taking effect as scheduled on Thursday."
"Critics argued that the FCC rules would concentrate too much power in the hands of large media companies." 7-03
- Essay on Media Control and Democracy (LovePeopleNotMoney.com - Chomsky)
". . . Let me [Naom Chomsky] begin by counter-posing two different conceptions of democracy. One conception of democracy has it that a democratic society is one in which the public has the means to participate in some meaningful way in the management of their own affairs and the means of information are open and free. . . ."
An alternative conception of democracy is that the public must be barred from managing of their own affairs and the means of information must be kept narrowly and rigidly controlled. That may sound like an odd conception of democracy, but it's important to understand that it is the prevailing conception. . . . " 10-03
- Media Control and Democracy (MediaReform.net)
Provides news and essays related to media control. 10-03
- 11-22-03 World Media Assess Effects of British Visit (BBC News)
"Papers around the world see little reason for US President George Bush to return home satisfied after his trip to the UK."
"Many believe that his visit served merely to underline the gulf between the US-led coalition and Europe's citizens."
"Against the backdrop of the suicide bombings in Istanbul, some papers also suggest that the war on terror has had very limited success and may in fact be backfiring." 11-03
- 11-19-03 World Media Assess Bush Visit to Britain (BBC News)
"International media comment continues to highlight problems facing George W Bush and Tony Blair at the start of the US president's state visit to Britain." 11-03
- Media Control and Democracy (MediaChannel.com)
Provides news from independent Internet sources. 1-04
- 01-30-04 Kerry and Edwards Garnered Favorable Media Coverage (CMPA.com - Felling)
"Prior to their surprising Iowa caucus performances, 98 percent of the network evening news coverage of Democratic Presidential candidates John Kerry and John Edwards was positive, according to research conducted by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA). The study also found Howard Dean received more critical coverage over the same time period, at 58 percent positive." "This report examines the 91 stories broadcast on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening news from January 1st through January 18th, the night before the Iowa caucus." 1-04
- Democracy and Mass Media (PBS.org)
Provides articles regarding the role of mass media in political campaigns. 5-04
- 06-23-04 Court Blocks Media Dominance Rules (USAToday.com)
"A federal appeals court on Thursday largely reversed a landmark set of rule changes from the Federal Communications Commission that would have allowed media companies to own more radio and television stations in the same market." 6-04
- Free Press Combats Media Monopolies (FreePress.com)
Free Press is an advocacy group that fights monopolies in the mass media markets. " 6-04
- Media Access Combats Media Monopolies (MediaAccess.org)
"For more than 25 years, Media Access Project (MAP) has worked to promote the public's right to speak and to hear information from diverse sources. From Low Power FM, to fighting consolidation in the media, to guaranteeing 'open access' and a choice of ISP to every Internet subscriber on cable, DSL, or any platform, MAP has provided legal representation for citizen and consumer groups, grass roots organizations." 6-04
- -Editorial - Terrorists Require the Partnership of Mass Media (Christian Science Monitor - Felling)
"Troubling questions abound: Does terrorism exist without the media? Does coverage of terrorist acts empower or encourage the people behind them? If terrorism is directed more at the audience than at its victims, shouldn't television journalists stop giving terrorists the forum they covet?"
"Certainly, television news covers terrorist attacks for the high-minded journalistic objective of informing viewers. But the zeal with which fear has been commoditized - from shark attacks to child kidnappings to the Washington sniper - is a product of TV executives realizing that frightened people put down the remote control and await news updates, ratcheting up ratings points. Unfortunately, this living-room fearmongering plays right into the hands of terrorists who are attempting to rattle every American, turning television news reporters into de facto publicists for terrorists."
"Nearly 20 years ago, the eminent Washington reporter David Broder suggested that 'the essential ingredient of any effective antiterrorist policy must be the denial to the terrorist of access to mass media outlets.' He said this in a different era, before 24-hour news channels were in hot competition for Americans' attention. He's still right."
"Amateur cooks learn quickly that pouring water on a grease fire only makes it worse. Broadcasters must realize that their coverage might be doing the same. Like cutting off the oxygen that sustains a flame, a few internal shifts in reporting policy would traumatize viewers less and could save lives." 9-04
- Role of Media in Terrorism (Guardian Unlimited)
"Journalists must urgently debate whether their coverage of crises such as the hostage-taking in Iraq is driving terrorists to commit ever more outrageous atrocities, a top BBC executive said last night."
Editor's Note: The Awesome Library does not cover hostage-taking activities because coverage is necessary for terrorists to "gain full value" from their hostage-taking. Further, the Awesome Library staff strongly encourage other media not to cover hostage-taking events.
- Media for Democracy (MediaforDemocracy.org)
"Media For Democracy 2004 is a non-partisan citizens' initiative to monitor mainstream news coverage of the 2004 elections and advocate fair, democratic and issue-oriented standards of reporting. The project links voters with more than 100 independent media reform groups in a targeted campaign to prevent the types of media mistakes -- such as early, erroneous and politically biased projections -- that plagued the 2000 election." 9-04
- Editorial - Saudi Link to Terrorists (MediaFund.org)
"When congressional investigators issued their report on 9-11… there were 28 pages missing. 28 pages of evidence that the Saudi government funded the terrorists who killed nearly 3000 Americans." 9-04
- Alternative Media (MichaelMoore.com)
Describes alternative media, mostly with progressive views. 10-04
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