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The goal of this thesis was to delve into the wide variety of circumstances and factors that determine the ways mainstream American media develops and produces news stories for print and broadcast mediums. The thesis focused on a central problem, namely the bias that is omnipres…

This thesis is a study in the change of the use of audiovisual elements between the 1991 Gulf War news coverage and the 2003 Iraq War news coverage. The purpose of this study was to analyze audiovisual elements in war coverage from the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War in orde…

The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature of code switching between Tamazight and Arabic in light of Myers-Scotton's (MLF) (Myers- Scotton, 1993), and the 4-M model of code switching (Myers-Scotton & Jake, 2000). Data come from the very first Libyan Tamazight news b…

In a 1969 interview with Don Finegan and others, composer John Cage voiced his disdain for electronic broadcast forms, declaring, “I don’t keep any records” and “I don’t even bother looking at the television anymore. I don’t ever listen to the radio. You could say, perhaps, that…

This paper examines the changes in broadcast spectrum usage over the years and the effects it is having on the broadcast television industry. It is a case study of the TCT Television Network, a small independent religious broadcasting network. The recent 600 MhZ spectrum auction…