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1) Weather girl
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2022.
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"A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results in this charming romantic comedy from the author of The Ex Talk. Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weatherwoman Torrance Hale, is too distracted by her tempestuous relationship with her ex-husband, the station's news director,...
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The popular character from the "Anchorman" movies shares stories of his childhood and the events that led him to choose a career in the news business; personal anecdotes about the women in his life and his legendary news team; and advice on a variety of topics.
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Kanopy Streaming
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2016.
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English
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Social media tools are being used across all media sources including traditional news outlets and online-based resources. This program focuses on the variety of ways social media is essential to storytelling and news distribution. Each chapter highlights an element of social media used by top journalists who rely on these communication channels to both research stories and broaden their audience. Its designed to help students and educators understand...
5) Savage news
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Assigned to cover the White House for her network, ATN, Natalie Savage's only problem is that the position is temporary, a test to see if she has what it takes. Her competition is a spoiled frat boy who got his big television break by eating raw animal parts on a reality show. Natalie, along with her scrappy production team, has to navigate ratings wars, workplace sexual harassment and an international political crisis in order to prove herself. But...
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"Cary Poarch started working at CNN in the summer of 2017 as a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter. But on his first location shoot during the Charlottesville riots, he quickly became disillusioned with how the network created the "fine people" hoax. This began a political odyssey as he documented numerous incidents of outright bias, eventually leading him to contact James O'Keefe of Project Veritas. For months, Cary Poarch documented CNN's rampant...
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Filled with the author's trademark candor and compassion, Face the Nation shines a witty and nostalgic light on our nation's presidents, culture, foreign policy and domestic affairs. This is a one-of-a-kind anniversary gift from a man uniquely qualified to reflect on our changing country over the past 50 years.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Race Against Prime Time is the only film to scrutinize how television news represents African Americans. This hard-hitting documentary takes us behind the scenes at the newsrooms of the three network affiliates during the Liberty City uprising in Miami which left 18 dead. It provides a classic case study of how the news gets made: what we see - and what we don't. Race Against Prime Time documents how local television newsmen anoint black community...
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With the creation of the Cable News Network (CNN) in 1980, television news changed forever. Today, television news shapes viewers' opinions, politics, and journalism as a whole. Filled with attention-grabbing photographs, political cartoons, and in-depth sidebars, this book introduces readers to the story of what came before in-the-moment reporting, how the twenty-four-hour news cycle came about, and what instantaneous reporting might mean for the...
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America is suffering from an information glut. Most Americans are no longer clear about what news is worth remembering or how any of it connects to anything else. Thus, Americans are rapidly becoming the least knowledgeable people in the industrial world. In How to Watch TV News, author and academic Neil Postman and television journalist Steve Powers show how you can become a discerning viewer. They show the difference between entertainment fodder...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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This critically-acclaimed documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites work in combination with Israeli public relations strategists to exercise a powerful influence over news coverage of the Middle East conflict. Combining American and British TV news clips with the insights of analysts, journalists, and political activists, Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land provides an historical overview, a devastating...
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2023.
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"Meet the Murdochs and the family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in the land. Now their empire is crashing down. Drawing on years of access to the world of Fox, Michael Wolff plunges us behind the scenes of another empire of influence. Here is Rupert Murdoc, the ninety-two-year-old Australian billionaire concerned about his legacy but more concerned about profits. Here are his progeny, jockeying...
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The CNN correspondent examines Donald Trump's controversial relationship with the Fox News network and discusses the tensions at the network between Trump loyalists and the few remaining journalists.
President Donald Trump watches over six hours of Fox News a day, a habit his staff refers to as 'executive time.' In January 2020, when Fox News began to downplay COVID-19, the President was quick to agree. In March, as the deadly virus spiraled out...
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In his nearly thirty years at CBS News, Emmy Award-winner Bernard Goldberg earned a reputation as one of the preeminent reporters in the television news business. When he looked at his own industry, however, he saw that the media far too often ignored their primary mission: objective, disinterested reporting. Again and again he saw that they slanted the news to the left.
For years Goldberg appealed to reporters, producers, and network executives...
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Where does the news that students hear--on television, the radio, and online--come from? And who decides what's news? Asking Questions about How the News is Created discusses how an event becomes a story, and how the biases of the gatekeepers of the news media can alter the messages being sent. Case studies prompt inquiry, further thinking, and close examination of specific issues. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and...
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