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Table of Contents:

• Media bias is a serious problem / Sheila Gribben Liaugminas
• Media bias is not a serious problem / Tyler Cohen
• Liberal media bias is a myth / E.J. Dionne
• Liberal media bias is not a myth / Pat Buchanan
• Bias against minorities remains a problem in the media / Pamela Newkirk
• Efforts to fight media bias against minorities are misguided / William McGowan
• Broadcasters should be required to air a variety of opposing views / Edward Monks
• Broadcasters should not be required to air a variety of opposing views / Katherine Mangu-Ward, Joseph Farah
• Media monopolies are a serious problem / Mark Crispin Miller
• Fears of media monopolies are misplaced / Adam Thierer, Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.
• Media ownership regulations should be lifted / James Gattuso
• Media ownership regulation should remain in place / Ted Turner
• Media ownership deregulation has harmed radio / Bill Park
• Media ownership deregulation has helped radio / Lowry Mays
• Media violence causes youth violence / Senate Committee on the Judiciary
• Media violence does not cause youth violence / Richard Rhodes
• Media polls negatively affect the American political process / Ramesh Ponnuru
• Media polls positively affect the American political process / Maurice Carroll
• Alcohol advertising encourages teens to consume alcohol / George A. Hacker
• Alcohol advertising does not encourage teens to consume alcohol / David J. Hanson

• The internet will make newspapers obsolete / Neil Morton
• The internet will not make newspapers obsolete / Mark Briggs
• The internet has made child pornography a national problem the government must address / George W. Bush, Morality in Media
• The internet has made government action against child pornography untenable / Jeffrey Rosen
• Internet journalism will transform the media industry / Paul Andrews
• The media industry threatens to stifle the promise of the internet / Jeff Chester, Steven Rosenfeld.

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Contributors:

Dudley, William, 1964-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)

Subjects:

Mass media — United States

Mass media

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Call Numbers:

P92.U5 M276 2005

ISBNs:

0737722428 (lib, alk. paper)
0737722436 (pbk., alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2004042401

OCLC Numbers:

54415473