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Vasterman, Peter, C. Joris Yzermans, and Anja J. E. Dirkzwager. Epidemiologic Reviews. 2005. N.p.: n.p., 2004. Epidemiologic Reviews. web.cenet.org. Web. 29 Sept. 2010. . Dr. Peter Vasterman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam while Doctors Joris Yzermans and Anja J. E. Dirkzwager work for NIVEL(Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research. They all have their PhD's and are registered doctors. These doctors have collaborated to make volumes of books on the health of others after accidents. They are very informational books on how the health of others is affected by their surroundings during the time they need to recoup. Now, usually they are surrounded by televisions and radios and other forms of entertainment. These forms of entertainment usually cover the accidents that happen to people and as these doctors listened to and interviewed the researchers and authorities on the matter. Now the people recovering from the accident usually want quiet time but instead they are forced to listen to what happened. Then, they are usually forced into interviews and their recoup oration suffers and they can never completely recover properly. The author(s) believe that the media is extremely responsible for the many damaged individuals who suffer from media exposure. The authors then go on to explain how the media is solely the reason that things in the world are over blown. The media mainly reports a portion of the news and leave out the factual areas of what happened in order to keep those entertained. They sacrifice information for the sake of entertainment and that leads not only to ignorance but also to mental issues especially for those who were around the area/involved at the time. They all explain what the purpose of their books is, perfectly without any problem. Truthfully they were certainly biased for when they began writing they felt as though the media was evil. Two of the authors are doctors specializing in mental disabilities meaning when it came to things having to do with mental illnesses they were extremely qualified and the information was slightly personalized but also very factual. It explained all the way through what it is the media does to hurt others and how through their methods of research and interviewing people they accurately displayed the affects of the media on the human psyche. This information was highly confusing for I had to read it several times, but i did in fact learn a lot. This article after being thoroughly inspected helped me understand how the media whether it being televisions, radios, or any types of broadcasting can completely augment the facts in their favor. The media believes they are leaving out information for our benefit but it is in fact making us ignorant.Thanks to this article I now have a better understanding of what is going on with the media. Burtina, Tatyana. "Media Influence in Our Society." Editorial. Associated Content. Yahoo News Network, 8 Dec. 2005. Web. 29 Sept. 2010. .  media_influence_in_our_society.html?cat=35>. The article talks about and reviews how the world we live in is run by entertainment, and what's even worse about that is the fact that entertainment runs our lives and dictates what it is we do. All day we work but then as we come home our televisions and radios and computers are there waiting to be of use and we allow these forms of entertainment run how we do things in our everyday life. Mainly commercials are the problem for they provide a false image of life and usually are aimed at teenagers who are statistically not fully comfortable with themselves yet. They target teens and show them a fake life that seems to be better if you are in possession of the product and it brainwashes you into using/buying what it is the commercial is selling. It then begins to drift off subject and talk about the porn industry and then curves back around to conclude her rant about the way we allow entertainment and advertisement to dictate how we act and feel. Her way of thinking is highly logical simply because it makes perfect sense that we let the entertainment industry run our lives. If you pay attention to it, we all watch T.V., listen to the radio, and even get on the computer and if prior to that we see a commercial or advertisement that pertains to the elegance of a person’s life, we must go out and get what they have whether it be a new dress, a cool toy, a new drink, or even a new car. It completely covers how we allow the media to dictate how we act, feel, and listen. It didn't zero in on what I was mainly talking about but it does in fact capture the essence of the broader topic I am covering. This editorial does help me with my research because it does confirm some questions I had dealing with commercials and media in general. As I said earlier it did not cover my topic directly but it was in the general ‘ballpark’ of what I was looking up. The article was highly interesting on how it did cover the basis of my topic and it helped me refine what I was looking for. Cey, Janet. "Media and Public Opinion." Editorial. Associated Content. Yahoo  News Network, 15 Mar. 2006. Web. 29 Sept. 2010. . Although hard to read this article was very informational for it explained how those who are upper class usually run the mass media. They dictate how the news is sent out and how certain people/things in the news is viewed. When upper class individuals run the news are allowed to smear the names of those they do not like or they can make some seem better than others and endorse friends of theirs from behind the scenes. This articles main focus is to show people that the media is completely biased and that it may seem like it's for the people when in fact it is for whomever the upper class individual(s) decides. The whole article is based off of the movie “Constructing Public Opinion” where constantly they are quoting the movie to use it as a reference piece. Also she uses examples on how politicians abuse their use of the media to try and make money and distort the other running candidates' image. ThWhile reading this article I was very intrigued on how this movie gave her all of this information. It was very easy to ready and simply filled with information on how mostly every broadcast station is extremely biased according to the rich CEO side of any argument. This article is based off information given from the movie "Constructing Public Opinion" meaning if the author agreed with the research she is also very biased to the in favor of the director who also is very biased against the broadcast medium. The author and the director make very good points and they helped me narrow my searching even more and now I have tons more sub topics to incorporate into my final paper. I've learned a lot from this article simply because it was easy to read, it was full of information, and it even used anecdotes to keep my attention. I learned that the CEO of many companies run the broadcast mediums and that their preference of any argument is the side that gets the most attention.  Stabile, Carol A. "Conspiracy or Consensus? Reconsidering the Moral Panic." Editorial. Journal of Communication Inquiry. Sage Publications, July 2001. Web. 17 Oct. 2010. . I had to look everywhere to find this article and even downloaded the PDF file to gain a complete understanding of what the article was truly about. Carol reviews the crime rate and how it has sky rocketed throughout the past couple of years and then she looks at the media coverage behind it. She even goes over the way the media over blows everything it covers having to do with the violence. The media has become very broad over the passed several years and the news stations and they neglect the facts and also forget to tell the whole story instead of just a few things of random information. The crime rate has raised because of guns and it wasn't until months later that the media released the primary cause was gun violence. The main reason is because they want to keep the interest of the public simply because the news seems to be loosing viewers so they obscure the truth in order to keep us entertained. This article was very easy to read and quite interesting simply because she backed the article up with so many news reports. Carol had many different ways of displaying her thesis and so that combined with it being easy to read kept my attention. I now know even more about the broadcast journalism field of work and how Carol agrees with Janet in the bibliography above this one explaining that the bias's are led by the big company CEOs behind the news. The only bad part about this article is Carol was completely biased about the news beforehand. When she wrote this, the coverage on gun violence was barely informative at all and she seemed to mean it all. She explains how the media is completely leading everyone on just to keep our interests because they are afraid of the falling number of viewers. Shah, Anup. "Media in the United States." Editorial. Globalissues.org. Global Issues Inc, 27 Oct. 2009. Web. 17 Oct. 2010. <http://www.globalissues.org/article/163/media-in-the-united-states>. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal;">This article really made me think simply because she was right. Ms. Shah simply explains that in the U.S. with all the scandals such as stealing money, media bias, and inaccuracy of the news, how can the average american really get an opinion on an issue when all the facts they think they know are wrong. Even the veracity of the U.S. is being spread throughout to different countries. This article was very short but gave me a lot to think about simply because after looking at so many things about how biased the media is, where do we get our facts from? We can't go straight to the source if we live in PA and the person whose story is being shared lives in CA or OH. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had to think long and hard about the question of Where do we get our facts from if we can't trust the media? I still don't have an answer and it is highly confusing because it's a question not many people can answer. Yet, no matter how perplexed I am about the question, I can't help but think somewhere there is a reliable news source but where it is hiding, know one really knows. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The author of this article was not biased like my previous authors, she was just a blogger who was curious on a very controversial subject. It seems the source I chose with the least scholarly background is the one that makes me think the most. It's odd but this question had my brain doing flips and if I couldn't trust the media before, I certainly can't now for I have lost all interest in the lies. <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">** __ [|Mass Media Effects on Violent Behavior] __ ** Richard B. Felson //__ [|Annual Review of Sociology] __// Vol. 22, (1996), pp. 103-128 Published by: Annual ReviewsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2083426    Mr. Felson is a Professor at Penn State University where he teaches Crime, Law, and Justice and Sociology. He has received awards from various police departments and has also won awards from his rape prevention classes. Felson had written this part of the book to focus on how the media has once again overblown coverage. This time, it is not because of the news it is t.v. and movies in general. Children have become more violent, and are much more angered now. It started in the '70's when the t.v.'s were being introduced in homes all around the country. When it came to entertainment it seemed as though violence was always on the television and it always kept the attention of the kids of the times. Now, even though it's a different time and kids of this day have different thought processes than that of the kids of the '70's it seems that violence still keeps the attention of the children and they are still highly amused and now they even reenact the violent things they see. It seems that no matter what time period you grow up in, violence always keeps your attention. Even without the news and only media in general are over blowing issues and hurting those watching/listening. T.V.'s everywhere are spreading violence and in studies conducted where children saw violence, they put a "bobo doll" in front of them and after seeing an adult hit it they in turn hit the doll and began to attack it. Mr. Felson makes very clear and accurate points that were very carefully experimented. He did many studies and even evaluated two little boys who lived in the same house and put one in front of a t.v. that had violence on it and the other in front of a t.v. with nonviolent programming. It turns out the boys behaviors were completely independent and the boy watching the violent programming became easily frustrated and started to lash out violently while the other boy was his normal self. It was studies like this that made this passage easy to read and very enlightening. His studies and facts were very easy to understand and now I know that it's not just the news that was hurting those watching it. At first I only looked at the news and how they made every story less factual to keep the audiences attention, but after reading this article I now know it's not just the news but all media. It was interesting to see that the not only the news hurt those watching and now I must look at things regarding regular programming and what little kids specifically are looking at.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;">Strömberg, David. "Introduction and Summary." Introduction. Mass Media <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;"> Competition, Political Competition, and Public Policy. By Strömberg. 2-4. <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;"> Restud.com. John Wiley & Sons, 26 May 2002. Web. 21 Oct. 2010. <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;"> <http://www.restud.com/pdf/stromberg>. Dr. Stromberg is a professor at Stockholm University where he has won various awards. He has recently won the "Starting Independent Research" grants for his research on how politicians act depending on the amount of media coverage they receive. He teaches economic studies at the university and is just one of the many in Sweden to receive the grant which is good for five years of research. Dr. Stromberg looks at american politicians and how the media coverage changes them. If they do not receive a lot of time they become humble for they have no been getting their message out to the public but those who have received a lot of coverage tend to have much more confidence when asked questions. It even turns out that the coverage that most politicians get is based on who the viewers watched the most. If a politician by the name of John Smith and another one by the name of Chris Something received some coverage on FOX News about their campaigns, after advertisements for the candidates, the one that more viewers watched is the one who will continue to receive coverage and become more confident while the other is in the shadows. This little article was not as easy to read as the others nor was it as short but it certainly did give me more information. I only read a short section of the long passage and it gave me all the information i needed. I only needed to know how the media affects the opinions of the candidates giving those with more viewers more coverage instead of everything being equal. I know alot more about how the broadcast media works a little better now and I even understand why some politicians seem a little bit more laid back during debates compared to those who constantly receive coverage.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;">Jameson, Aris. "Public Opinion, the Media and Their Influence on Public Policy." <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;"> Editorial. Helium.com. Helium, n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2010. <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;"> <http://www.helium.com/items/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;"> 1036958-public-opinion-the-media-and-their-influence-on-public-policy>. This article makes perfect sense and actually furthers my dream of majoring in public relations. It helps me understand why the media has such a big influence over the lives of everyday Americans. It actually explains how a public relations master becomes exposed to the world for being a vicious monster ordering men to be killed. After his “15 minutes of fame” are up he is no longer trusted nor seen as figure of good. He then talks to a journalist who tries his best to send Mr. Rockefeller on his way back to fame. After producing many articles proving Mr. Rockefeller’s greatness and lying saying he was involved in many charity events, and that he constantly gave back to his community Mr. Rockefeller was back on his way to the top public relations figure. His journalist friend Mr. Lee devoted much of his time to helping Mr. Rockefeller reach the fame he long ago had. The article showed me how the relations field is very useful and can help many people-yet with the cost of manipulating those reading/watching. Regardless of what happens to those reading/watching, with someone who knows what he/she is doing you can completely flip your public image around. The importance of this article is that with the right amount of help people will believe anything told to them. This article makes perfect sense to me for people will almost believe anything and it perfectly illustrates the need for those to aid in helping create a public image. It was very easy to read and it makes me think about public relations even more as a field of study for when I go to college and it even helps me understand that those specializing in public image are very vital.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;">Stratford-Wright, K P. "Public Opinion, the Media, Informations, Propaganda and <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;"> the Function of Media Operations." Editorial. Ics.leeds.ac.uk. Inst. of <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;"> Communications Studies, Clothworkers' Building North, U. of Leeds, Leeds, <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;"> n.d. Web. 27 Oct. 2010. <http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/ <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;"> vp01.cfm?outfit=pmt&folder=66&paper=2249>. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;">This article was slightly hard to read. Since I'm not in the military it's not easy to understand some of the terminology used but the concept was easy to understand. The article just goes into depth <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;">about how they had to release information to the media in order to get the public to support their ideas and tactics on winning the war. The news certainly did agree to the terms with the military This article does then talk about how the media doctored up what it is the military was doing and so it changed everyones perception of what it is they were doing. It then goes on to talk about how the media is completely and utterly controlling how some feel about issues they are informed of. When the media gives the information about an issue the watcher can then take what they learned and run with it because sometimes the reporters opinion will be added and that will then become the watchers attitude towards the subject. Opinions on certain topics can be made in seconds but an opposing opinion can take weeks or even months to be changed. It is because the viewers have been so dedicating and so brainwashed that they believe the media itself is law and that what it tells you is exactly what happened. This was a very good article even though it was hard to read. It had plenty of words I was not familiar with and it then in turn broadened my vocabulary along with my knowledge of what the military thinks and how public opinion is so easily converted. I also understand a lot more how the media is changing and using the publics' faithfulness to change their opinions freely to whatever they feel is appropriate. It is clearly unfair and unjust to give a medium like that such an unfair advantage over the minds of the public faithful viewer.