Media & Values (Issues 42-51)
Media and the Earth:
Challenging the Consumer Culture
Issue #51
Summer 1990
Exploring the Theme
•STARTING POINT: Catch the Real Earth Day Fever
•Where Does it Come From? Where Does it Go?
•Envrionment News: No More Business as Usual
•How We Connect with the Earth
•CHILDREN: Finding Green Lessons in Fast Food
Reflection / Action
•Brands R Us: How Advertising Works
•MINORITIES: Ecological Reporters Awaken to Ethnicity
News for the '90s:
A Question of Values
Issue #50
Spring 1990
Exploring the Theme
•STARTING POINT: Is the News Selling You Short?
•Re-Touching Reality: Can Pictures Lie?
•Whatever Happened to the News?
•Can a Woman Deliver the News?
•Study Debunks Myths About Newspaper Religion Beat
Reflection / Action
•News: Balance Bias with Critical Questions
•News: Beyond the Myth of Objectivity
•CHILDREN: Parents Can Help Defuse Bad News
Gender in the Media / Part Two:
Redesigning Women
Issue #49
Winter 1990
Exploring the Theme
•STARTING POINT: Discover the many faces of women in media.
•Beauty...and the Beast of Advertising
•Worlds Apart: Women, Men and Technology
•Ads Pose Dilemma for Black Women
•GLOBAL: War Against Media Sexism is Global
•When Women Talk to Women, HerStory is Finally Told
Reflection / Action
•PASTORING: Eve's Legacy: Burden of Blame
•How to Evaluate Media Images of Women
•CHILDREN: Questions Help Challenge False Images
•Sexist Advertisements: How to see through the soft sell
•How to Conduct a Gender Survey of Your Local Newspaper
Gender in the Media / Part One:
Men, Myth and Media
Issue #48
Fall 1989
Exploring the Theme
•STARTING POINT: Real Men Don’t Fall for Media Myths
•Home, Home on the Remote: Why Do Men Control "the Clicker"?
•Dads Through the Decades: Thirty Years of TV Fathers
•YOUTH: Media Models Say Muscles Make Men
•CHILDREN: Helping Children Challenge Male Stereotypes
•Study Shows White Male Experts Dominate News
Reflection / Action
•How do Media Images of Men Affect Our Lives?
•PASTORING: What Gender is God?
•Boys Toys: What Does Technology Cost?
Media and Money:
How the Bottom Line Affects What We See and Hear
Issue #47
Summer 1989
Exploring the Theme
•STARTING POINT: From Wall Street to Your Street
•The Empire Strikes: Mergers in the Media World
•When I Grow Up: Children and the Work-World of Television
Reflection / Action
•CHILDREN: Economic Lessons for Young Viewers
•CHILDREN: Just Say ‘No’ To Garfield
•Can TV Characters Pay Their Bills?
The Birds, the Bees.and Broadcasting:
What Media Teach Our Kids about Sex
Issue #46
Spring 1989
Exploring the Theme
•STARTING POINT: Turning the tables on TV sex
•Sex on TV: Do All Kids See the Same Show?
•Sex and Consequences: Reflections of a TV Writer
•Who's in the Dollhouse? Research reveals surprising role models
Reflection / Action
•Tuning in to TV Sex: How to Use Media to Dialogue with your Children
•Pastoring: Healthy Sexual Ethic Starts With Adults
•MINORITIES: Hollywood Sour on Interracial Romance
Coming of Age:
Media and the Mature Audience
Issue #45
Winter 1989
Exploring the Theme
•STARTING POINT: It's not the same old story.
•Video Visits Help Families Say 'I Love You'
•Studies Analyze Elderly Use of Television
•Producer's Lament: Bottom Line Still Tops
•How does Hollywood Handle Ageism?
•Going for the Gold: The Golden Girls are a Hit!
•Attacking Ageism in Advertising
•TVs Dark Vision Can Be Frightening to Elders
Reflection / Action
•How to Watch Television with Your Grandchildren
•CHILDREN: Media Help Fill Grandparent Gap
•PASTORING: Senior Productions Raise Self-Esteem
•ADVOCACY: TV Still Sidesteps Real Life Struggles
•FAMILY: Oral Histories Harvest Family Heritage
Issue #44
Summer/Fall 1988
Exploring the Theme
•STARTING POINT: Whatever Happened to Potholders?
•One Journalist's View: Informed Voters Must Reach Beyond Images
•Power Politics: Reporting the Real Issues
•Democracy Requires Access to Media Alternatives
•Tony Schwartz: The Man Who Invented Political Spots
•Press Conferences: Linking People With Their President
Reflection / Action
•CHILDREN: TV Tool Teaches Election Basics
•YOUTH: Training Creates Media Wise Voters
•PASTORING: Faith Can Counter Campaign Cynicism
•MINORITIES: TV Images Reflect Changing America
•FAMILY: Questions to Analyze Political Media
•How to Decode Political Images
•The Selling of the President: 1984
Ethnic Diversity:
Challenging the Media
Issue #43
Spring 1988
Exploring the Theme
•STARTING POINT: We all come from somewhere
•Covering Conflict: How the News Media Handles Ethnic Controversy
•A Century of Abuse: Ethnic Images on Screen
Reflection / Action
•Hollywood’s Arab: Still Stuck in the Desert
•PASTORING: Stereotypes Back? It's No Joke
•FAMILY: 'Tossed Salad' Culture Honors Diversity
Home Video:
The Revolution is Choice
Issue #42
Winter 1988
Exploring the Theme
•STARTING POINT: It was bound to happen.
•Undercutting “Slashers”: Evaluating Video Violence
•China's Challenge: Modernize, not Westernize
Reflection / Action
•The VCR: Questions for Family Reflection