Sentences with phrase «of the mass media»

Since the beginning of the age of mass media, advertisements and commercials have been commonplace in the entertainment environment.

Privacy didn't get legal protections until the 20th century, as a reaction to continuing technological advances such as photography and the advent of mass media.

Where the old rules were «broadcast» and used various forms of mass media, the new rules are «narrowcast» and use highly targeted media.

Being prime minister of imperial Great Britain was no cakewalk, and Salisbury surely got plenty of advice from the well - meaning; but he was in his grave long before the explosion of mass media, the 24 - hour news cycle, and its attendant horde of talking heads.

After repeatedly expressing his First Amendment right to be on the property and to report the story, Tai was harassed by a group including Melissa Click, an assistant professor at the school of mass media at the university.

As always, the key to consistent, long - term trading profitability is simply to plan your trades and trade your plan, without getting distracted by the financial «gurus» and talking heads of mass media (turning off the TV helps in this regard).

by During this banker raid on paper gold and paper silver, while banking shill Nouriel Roubini was spouting more propaganda in the distribution channels of the mass media of a gold collapse to sub-par $ 1000 an ounce prices, we were busy informing our readers about the «Lies of Nouriel Roubini» (whose sole purpose in life, -LSB-...]

If you want an example of mass media — induced groupthink, Google the phrase «We can not arrest our way out of the drug problem» and count the number of politicians who parrot it.

Dr. Enzensberger was a German theologian and analyst of mass media who worked primarily immediately after the Second World War.

Discussion of this tends to concentrate on the media and the power of the mass media, which as it becomes increasingly global in its coverage, is becoming immense.

Such intra group communication changes are of great significance to faith communities; however, this often is neglected in our concern over the impact of mass media.

Other communication research has dealt with the power of mass media in altering our consciousness and informing our choices - the propaganda or advertising aspect of media messages (Lasswell 1927; Roloff and Miller 1980).

All this has provoked two very characteristic attitudes towards communication, especially following the» rapid development of mass media technology.

In the use of the mass media of communication, reverence is manifest in the aim of creating a blessed community, bound together in the truth, through media of public education devoted to the common good rather than to propaganda and profit for the advancement of selfish interests.

What is required is the public regulation of the mass media, by reference to standards of worth, in such a manner as to prevent their arbitrary employment for the advantage of private interests, either through deliberate manipulation or through giving the public what it thinks it wants.

This peril is most ominous when the government has a monopoly of the mass media.

A growing recognition of the educative role of the mass media may result in profound changes in both the schools and the agencies of mass communication.

A second conception of the purpose of the mass media is, apparently at least, more benignly democratic than the first.

In a healthy society the influences of homes and schools should complement and sustain those of the mass media, and vice versa, replacing the chaotic and frequently antagonistic relationships that now so largely prevail.

Because most theologians» own training and preoccupation has focussed on the rational discrimination of ideas, the concept of the mass media as integrated power and meaning - generating systems which are actively creating a mythological and heuristic milieu to serve particular social and economic interests is foreign to most theological educators.

The modern environment of the mass media, however, presents a quite different world.

Studies of mass media indicate that a distinctive and consistent picture of social reality can be identified across the content of various mass media within a culture.

The pandering function of the mass media merely weakens human personality by fostering self - deception.

In Canada, the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission is reasonably responsive to public concerns, and concerned citizens should express their views regarding the growing problem of violence and sexual violence in all of the mass media.

The structure, content, functioning and theological ramifications of the mass media are largely ignored in the work of most theological thinkers and theological education institutions.

The use of the mass media in a democracy of worth is based on four principles.

This is not to say that the mass media would see themselves in such religious terms, nor that people would acknowledge that they see their use of mass media as parallel to participation in a religious faith.

The ultimate goal of control of the mass media is to educate the public in self - regulation — to develop in all the people, whether producers or recipients, a reliable sense of what is worthy and what is not worthy of being made public.

The importance of the mass media lies in the fact that for the first time in human history the means exist for speedy total communication.

The fact that the capitalist system tends to turn everything into a commodity is admirably suited to the propaganda system of the mass media which turns each member of the audience into a consumer.

Yet we are only too ready to permit the use of mass media, of television, in the propagation of the gospel.

News, sports events, dramas, situation comedies, musicals, soap operas, documentaries, full - length feature films, even the weather report — all are providing part of the mass media «s mythic world.

There had been such muddles over the complex ticketing arrangements, and such hostility from sections of the mass media,...

«World government» has never been on the agenda - for - action of the world's population because the power structure of the nation - state has kept it off the agenda of the mass media controlled by those states.

Without overlooking the manipulative and deceptive purposes of the mass media, it should not be forgotten that this same atemporal concept is used by those who make use of the fantasy of the media to communicate very effectively the fantasy of their own «gospel».

The advent of the mass media was well received by the churches, although they expressed certain fears.

What can we say about the use of mass media for religious ends?

But given the conglomerate control of our mass media and the difficulties of mobilizing our large and diverse population, such an opting for popular democracy, as we remember it from our past, seems unlikely.

Socialist morality as it is taught by the communications systems in the socialist countries, of course, has the power - ordering consequences of the technology In general, of the technology of communications, and of the mass media technology in particular.

Such long - term trends as the development of technology, the increase of living standards, the growth of leisure, the elaboration of the mass media for entertainment and communication - all these create new and perplexing problems.

We may have underestimated the continuing influence of those traditional institutions which have managed to survive without the benefit of the mass media for many years and which continue to transfer cultural values — the family, home, community, school, church, fraternal organizations, and others.

There had been such muddles over the complex ticketing arrangements, and such hostility from sections of the mass media, and such horrible things said by campaigners opposed to the Church's teachings, and such tragedy over the evil actions of priests who had betrayed their calling.

In his frequently quoted address to the Roman Curia of 22 December 2005, Benedict XVI made the following remarks regarding the Second Vatican Council: On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call «a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture»; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology.

This was never going to last, since heresy and relativism had, of course, never disappeared from the «papal agenda» and neither — perhaps more to the point — had his (and his predecessor's) analysis that disunity in the modern church was the result of a clash between two different interpretations of the Council itself, one right, the other wrong: as Benedict once more explained it, as his first Christmas as Pope approached in December 2005, «On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call «a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture» [i.e., the line peddled by The Tabletfor thirty years]; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology.

These cultural changes are too familiar to require elaboration here: rapid upward mobility, the expansion of higher education, the growth and development of the mass media, the end of legal segregation, and alterations in women's roles.

They see his unpopularity as the result of his outspoken leadership, plus the bias and distortion of the mass media.

For example, many biblical fundamentalists tend to reject the appeals of the mass media, and to a certain degree to reject the media themselves.

This abuse of mass media, which suggests that the normal solution of human conflict is violence and even cruelty, is called by Haseldon «the most monstrous obscenity of our time.»

So also are the right use of the mass media of communication, the elevation of taste and manners, and the right choice of work and play.

Like any good honours student of mass media communications, I know my Marshall McLuhan, I know that the medium is the message.