Statement on TV News and the Culture of Violence

1998 National Survey: Not In The Public Interest

RMMW Files Application for Review of FCC's Denial of License Challenge

RMMW Rebuttals to Denver Television Stations' Objections to License Challenges

RMMW Petitions to Deny the Re-Licensing of 4 Denver Television Stations

Toxic TV News

Jurrasic "Journalism"

Analysis of Guests on C-Span’s Washington Journal

Not In The Public Interest

A Snapshot of Local TV News in America 3/11/98

by Dr. Paul D. Klite, Dr. Robert A. Bardwell
and Jason Salzman
Rocky Mountain Media Watch $20.00

Covering 102 local TV newscasts from 52 U.S. metropolitan areas, the report focuses our concern that most local TV newscasts have abandoned the public interest in the race for ratings. But is also exciting to see that a few stations are breaking the tabloid mold.

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Making the News

A Guide for Nonprofits & Activists

by Jason Salzman
289 pages, Westview Press,$19.95
ISBN 0-8133-6898-7

This handbook, based on interviews with media-savvy activists and 25 professional journalists, explains how to generate news coverage about any cause or issue that concerns you. Learn how to stage media events, write press releases, compile media lists, contact reporters, deliver sound bites, book a guest on talk radio, lobby editorial writers, columnists and photographers, and much more. Making the News also contains unique advice on how to create newsworthy visual imagery. Simple, complicated, cheap, funny, flashy ideas for all kinds of media events are described.

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Baaad News

Local TV News in America 2/26/97

by Dr. Paul D. Klite, Dr. Robert A. Bardwell
and Jason Salzman
Rocky Mountain Media Watch $10.00

A content analysis of 100 newscats in 55 cities. Includes individual station data for news, commercials, mayhem and fluff.

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Pavlov's TV Dogs:

A Snapshot of Local TV News in America 9/20/95

by Dr. Paul D. Klite, Dr. Robert A. Bardwell
and Jason Salzman
Rocky Mountain Media Watch $10.00

Pavlov's TV Dogs is a study and analysis of the content of 100 stations' local TV news. The study delineates the quantities of news, advertising, and self-referential promotion. It defines indicies for Mayhem and Fluff. And it introduces the Pavlov Index, a measure to quantify the use of highly emotional content as an audience preparation mechanism for the benefit of advertisers.

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AdAboutTV

Tools for Critical Viewing

By John Boak ---Download for free
These are "advertisements" about ideas. Download and print these PDF files. Hang them in your office. Give them to others. Fax and e-mail them. Requires Adobe® Acrobat 3, Reader and Plug-in, which may be downloaded via a link on these pages.

LINK TO "AD ABOUT TV" PAGES

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